AMD Baffin
AMD's Baffin GPU uses the GCN 4.0 architecture and is made using a 14 nm production process at GlobalFoundries. With a die size of 123 mm² and a transistor count of 3,000 million it is a small chip. Baffin supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.
Further reading:
Polaris Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- Baffin
- Architecture
- GCN 4.0
- Foundry
- GlobalFoundries
- Process Size
- 14 nm
- Transistors
- 3,000 million
- Density
- 24.4M / mm²
- Die Size
- 123 mm²
- Released
- Aug 8th, 2016
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (12_0)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.1
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- Compute
- GFX8
- ROCm
- Yes
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 1024
- TMUs
- 64
- ROPs
- 16
- Compute Units
- 16
- ACEs
- 4
- HWSs
- 2
- SEs
- 2
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB per CU
- L2 Cache
- 1024 KB
- Max. TDP
- 80 W
All GCN 4.0 GPUs
AMD GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the AMD Baffin GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
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AMD Radeon RX 460
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Baffin PRO | 2 GB | 896 | 56 | 16 | 1090 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100
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Baffin XT | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 1125 MHz | 1201 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon E9260 MXM
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Baffin PRO | 4 GB | 896 | 48 | 16 | 1090 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
AMD Radeon E9260 PCIe
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Baffin PRO | 4 GB | 896 | 48 | 16 | 1090 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro 460 | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 850 MHz | 907 MHz | 1270 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro 455 | Baffin PRO | 2 GB | 768 | 48 | 16 | 855 MHz | 1270 MHz | |
AMD Radeon Pro 450 | Baffin LE | 2 GB | 640 | 40 | 16 | 800 MHz | 1270 MHz | |
AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP
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Baffin XT | 2 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 1090 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro V5300X | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 1125 MHz | 1201 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 1090 MHz | 1202 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 896 | 56 | 16 | 1000 MHz | 1053 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 896 | 56 | 16 | 1000 MHz | 1180 MHz | 1250 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP
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Baffin LE | 2 GB | 640 | 40 | 16 | 1019 MHz | 1071 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4150 Mobile | Baffin PRO | 4 GB | 896 | 56 | 16 | 1002 MHz | 1053 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4130 Mobile | Baffin LE | 4 GB | 640 | 40 | 16 | 1002 MHz | 1053 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile | Baffin XT | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 1002 MHz | 1201 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP
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Baffin LE | 2 GB | 640 | 40 | 16 | 1019 MHz | 1071 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile | BaffinM-XT | 4 GB | 896 | 56 | 16 | 784 MHz | 1032 MHz | 1710 MHz |
AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP
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Baffin LE | 2 GB | 512 | 32 | 16 | 1019 MHz | 1071 MHz | 1500 MHz |
Baffin GPU Notes
Architecture Codename: Arctic Islands Codename: Polaris 11 Old Codename: Kauai/Maui / RacerX CLRX Version: GCN 1.2 Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx803) Display Core Engine: 11.2 Unified Video Decoder: 6.3 Video Compression Engine: 3.4 |