AMD quietly introduces a lower-spec Radeon RX 560 with 896 SPs
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When AMD launched the Radeon RX 560 back in April, the GPU sported 1024 stream processors inside of 16 compute units. That figure was an increase from the 896 SPs within 14 CUs in the otherwise-similar previous-gen Radeon RX 460. The reference base and boost clocks also received a spec bump from its predecessor's figures. For unclear reasons, though, it seems that some RX 560s will again ship with 896 SPs. AMD recently made some silent updates to the Radeon RX 560's product page that reveal a second, identically-named version with the smaller resource complement.
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