[8] Thus the RX 500 series uses the same microarchitecture and instruction set as its predecessor, while making use of improvements in the manufacturing process to enable higher clock rates.

[9][10] Third-generation GCN chips are produced on a 28 nm CMOS process.

[11] Polaris 30 chips are produced on a 12 nm FinFET process, developed by Samsung and GlobalFoundries.

The series support DisplayPort 1.4 HBR, HDMI 2.0b, and HDR10 color.

[12] Dual-Link DVI-D and DVI-I at resolutions up to 4096×2304 and VGA at up to 2048x1536 are also supported, despite ports not being present on the reference cards, and cards with VGA ports are mostly sold in Eastern Asia exclusively.