AMD's response to the controversy about the AMD RX 560 with 896 Stream Processors and 1024 Stream Processors and promise to clarify the situation as soon as possible.

Yesterday we echoed the distribution by AMD of two versions of the AMD RX 560, one that would have 896 Stream Processors and another with 1024 Stream Processors. This really is not a novelty, since this summer AMD announced the sale for the Asian market of the AMD RX 560D, a different version of these graphics cards based on the same GPU as the AMD RX 460, trying to sell the Stock these graphics cards and prevent them from being left in warehouses.

The controversy has come with the AMD website, where it does not differentiate between models, since it indicates that the AMD RX 560 indicates that it has 896/1024 Stream Processors, but no further differentiation is indicated. This logically represents a problem, since the assemblers may not indicate data on this differentiation, beyond the specifications in the product sheet and the reference that is usually common on the boxes, so some user can be led to error and find with a worse performing product.

AMD has spoken with Guru3D and has communicated to them that: 'It is correct that 14 Compute Units (896 Stream Processors) and 16 Compute Units (1024 Stream Processors) are available in the AMD RX 560. Introducing the 14CU version this summer to provide builders and the market more options on the RX 500 series. It has come to our attention that certain assembler and scrap websites do not have a clear delineation between the variants. We are taking immediate action to remedy this - we are working with all channel partners and assemblers to ensure that product names and descriptions clarify the Compute Unit count, so players and consumers know exactly what they are buying. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused. '

Note: AMD's website still makes no distinction between models.