The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD,[9] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.[10]
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| Release date | January 9, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Codename | Southern Islands London Trinity Sea Islands |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3 GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen |
| Transistors |
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| Cards | |
| Entry-level | 73xx - 76xx |
| Mid-range | 7750 7770 7790 7850 |
| High-end | 7870 7870 XT 7950 7970 |
| Enthusiast | 7990 |
| API support | |
| DirectX |
|
| OpenCL | OpenCL 2.1 (GCN version) |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5[1][2][3][4][5] OpenGL 4.6 (GCN only, Win 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+, Linux Mesa: WIP) [6] |
| Vulkan |
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| History | |
| Predecessor | Radeon HD 6000 series |
| Variant | Radeon HD 8000 series |
| Successor | Radeon R5/R7/R9 200 series |
| Support status | |
| Unsupported | |
The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.[11]
Architecture
Graphics Core Next was introduced with the Radeon HD 7000 series.
- A GPU implementing Graphics Core Next is found on the Radeon HD 7730 and above branded discrete GPUs.
- A GPU implementing TeraScale (microarchitecture) version "Evergreen (VLIW5)" is found on Radeon HD 7670 and below branded discrete GPUs.
- A GPU implementing TeraScale (microarchitecture) version "Northern Islands (VLIW4)" is found on APUs whose GPUs are branded with the Radeon HD 7000 series.
- OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders. These are implemented by emulation on some TeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs.
- Vulkan 1.0 requires GCN-Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 requires actual 2nd Gen. of GCN or higher (here only HD 7790).[12] On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on Windows and Linux is supported on all GCN-architecture based GPUs.
Multi-monitor support
The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 in the Radeon HD 5000 series and have been present in all products since.[13]
Video acceleration
Both Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) are present on the dies of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.
OpenCL (API)
OpenCL accelerates many scientific Software Packages against CPU up to factor 10 or 100 and more.Open CL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all Chips with Terascale and GCN Architecture. OpenCL 2.0 is supported with GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher.[14] For OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 only Driver Updates are necessary with OpenCL 2.0 conformant Cards.
Vulkan (API)
Vulkan 1.1 is supported for all with GCN Architecture with recent drivers on Linux and Windows.Vulkan 1.2 is available for GCN 2nd Gen or higher with Windows Adrenalin 20.1(and newer) and Linux Mesa 20.0(and newer).
Desktop products
The 28 nm product line is divided in three dies (Tahiti, Pitcairn, and Cape Verde), each one highly increasing shader units (32, 20 and 10 respectively). While this gives a high increase in single-precision floating point, there is however a significant departure in double-precision compute power. Tahiti has a maximum ¼ double precision throughput relative to its single precision throughput, while the other two smaller consumer dies can only achieve a 1/16 ratio.[15] While each bigger die has two additional memory controllers widening its bus by 128 bits, Pitcairn however has the same front-end dual tesselator units as Tahiti giving it similar performance to its larger brethren in DX11 tessellation benchmarks.[15]
Radeon HD 7900
Codenamed Tahiti, the Radeon HD 7900 series was announced on December 22, 2011. Products include the Radeon 7970 GHz Edition, Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950.[16] The Radeon HD 7970 features 2048 usable stream cores,[A] whereas the Radeon HD 7950 has 1792 usable stream cores, as 256 out of the 2048 cores are disabled during product binning which detects defective areas of a chip. The cards are the first products to take advantage of AMD's new "Graphics Core Next" compute architecture. Both cards are equipped with 3 GB GDDR5 memory and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process. The Tahiti GPU is also used in the Radeon HD 7870 XT, released November 19, 2012. In this case one quarter of the stream processors are disabled, giving 1536 usable cores. Additionally, the memory interface is downgraded from 384-bit to 256-bit, along with a memory size reduction from 3 GB to 2 GB.
Radeon HD 7800
Codenamed Pitcairn, the Radeon HD 7800 series was formally unveiled on March 5, 2012, with retail availability from March 19, 2012. Products include the Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 7850. The Radeon HD 7870 features 1280 usable stream cores, whereas the Radeon HD 7850 has 1024 usable stream cores. Both cards are equipped with 2GB GDDR5 memory (some 7850s offer 1GB) and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.[18]
Radeon HD 7700
Codenamed Cape Verde, the Radeon HD 7700 series was released on February 15, 2012. Products include the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7750. The Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition features 640 stream cores based on the GCN architecture, whereas the Radeon HD 7750 has only 512 usable stream cores. Both cards are equipped with 1 GB GDDR5 memory and manufactured in 28 nm. On March 22, 2013, another card, Radeon HD 7790, was introduced in this series. This card is based on the Bonaire architecture, which features 896 stream cores using 2nd Generation GCN technology, an incremental update. In May 2013, AMD launched the Radeon HD 7730, based on the Cape Verde LE graphics processor. It features a 128-bit memory bus, 384 stream cores, 8 ROPs, and a core clock speed of up to 800 MHz. The HD 7730 came with GDDR5 and DDR3 variants, running on memory clock speeds of 1125 MHz and 900 MHz, respectively. Load power usage was lowered by 14.5% (47W) compared to the Radeon HD 7750 (55W).[19]
Chipset table
Desktop products
- HD 7790 model is designed more like the 7800–7900 models rather than the 7700 featuring 2x primitive rate instead of 1x which is found in the other 7700 cards.[20]
- Bonaire XT is the only card in the 7000 series to support True Audio.
| Model (Codename) | Launch | Architecture Fab | Transistors Die Size | Core | Fillrate[a][b][c] | Processing power[a][d] (GFLOPS) | Memory[e] | TDP (Watts) | Bus interface | Release Price (USD) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Config[f] | Clock[a] (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Single | Double | Size (MiB) | Bus type & width | Clock (MHz) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Idle | Max. | ||||||
| Radeon HD 7350 (Cedar) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[g] 40 nm | 292×106 59 mm2 | 80:8:4 | 400 650 | 3.2 5.2 | 1.6 2.6 | 104 | — | 256 512 | DDR2 DDR3 64-bit | 400 800 900 | 6.4 12.8 14.4 | 6.4 | 19.1 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM |
| Radeon HD 7450 (Caicos) | January 2012 | 370×106 67 mm2 | 160:8:4 | 625 750 | 5.0 6.0 | 2.5 3.0 | 200 240 | — | 512 1024 | DDR3 64-bit | 533 800 | 8.5 12.8 | 9 | 18 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM | |
| Radeon HD 7470 (Caicos) | January 2012 | 160:8:4 | 625 775 | 5.0 6.2 | 2.5 3.1 | 200 248 | — | 512 1024 | DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit | 800 900 | 12.8 28.8 | 9 | 27 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM | ||
| Radeon HD 7510 (Turks LE) | February 2013 | 716×106 118 mm2 | 320:16:4 | 650 | 10.4 | 2.6 | 416 | — | 1024 | DDR3 128-bit | 667 | 21.3 | Unknown | Unknown | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM | |
| Radeon HD 7570 (Turks Pro-L) | January 2012 | 480:24:8 | 650 | 15.6 | 5.2 | 624 | — | 512 1024 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 900 1000 | 28.8 64 | 10 11 | 44 60 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM | ||
| Radeon HD 7670 (Turks XT) | January 2012 | 480:24:8 | 800 | 19.2 | 6.4 | 768 | — | 512 1024 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1000 | 64 | 12 | 66 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | OEM | ||
| Radeon HD 7730 (Cape Verde LE) | April 2013 | GCN 1st gen 28 nm | 1500×106 123 mm2 | 384:24:8 | 800 | 19.2 | 6.4 | 614.4 | 38.4 | 1024 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 1125 | 25.6 72 | 10 | 47 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $60 |
| Radeon HD 7750 (Cape Verde Pro) | February 2012 | 512:32:16 | 800 900 | 25.6 28.8 | 12.8 14.4 | 819.2 921.6 | 51.2 57.6 | 1024 2048 4096 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 800 1125 | 25.6 72 | 10 | 55 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $110 | ||
| Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition (Cape Verde XT) | February 2012 | 640:40:16 | 1000 | 40 | 16 | 1280 | 80 | 1024 2048 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1125 | 72 | 10 | 80 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $160 | ||
| Radeon HD 7790 (Bonaire XT) | March 2013 | GCN 2nd gen 28 nm | 2080×106 160 mm2 | 896:56:16 | 1000 | 56.0 | 16.0 | 1792 | 128 | 1024 2048 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1500 | 96 | 10 | 85 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $150 |
| Radeon HD 7850 (Pitcairn Pro) | March 2012 | GCN 1st gen 28 nm | 2800×106 212 mm2 | 1024:64:32 | 860 | 55.04 | 27.52 | 1761.28 | 110.08 | 1024 2048 | GDDR5 256-bit | 1200 | 153.6 | 10 | 130 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $250 |
| Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition (Pitcairn XT) | March 2012 | 1280:80:32 | 1000 | 80 | 32 | 2560 | 160 | 2048 | 1200 | 153.6 | 10 | 175 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $350 | |||
| Radeon HD 7870 XT (Tahiti LE) | November 2012 | 4313×106 352 mm2 | 1536:96:32 | 925 975 | 88.8 | 29.6 | 2841.6 2995.2 | 710.4 748.8 | 2048 | GDDR5 256-bit | 1500 | 192.0 | 15 | 185 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $270 | |
| Radeon HD 7950 (Tahiti Pro) | January 2012 | 1792:112:32 | 800 | 89.6 | 25.6 | 2867.2 | 717 | 3072 | GDDR5 384-bit | 1250 | 240 | 15 | 200 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $450 | ||
| Radeon HD 7950 Boost (Tahiti Pro2) | August 2012 | 1792:112:32 | 850 925 | 103.6 | 29.6 | 3046.4 3315.2 | 761.6 828.8 | 3072 | GDDR5 384-bit | 1250 | 240 | 15 | 225 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $330 | ||
| Radeon HD 7970 (Tahiti XT) | December 2011 | 2048:128:32 | 925 | 118.4 | 29.6 | 3788.8 | 947.2 | 3072 6144 | GDDR5 384-bit | 1375 | 264 | 15 | 250 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $550 | ||
| Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition (Tahiti XT2) | June 2012 | 2048:128:32 | 1000 1050 | 128.0 | 32 | 4096 4300.8 | 1024 1075 | 3072 6144 | GDDR5 384-bit | 1500 | 288 | 15 | 250 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $500 | ||
| Radeon HD 7990 (New Zealand) | April 2013 | 2× 4313×106 352 mm2 | 2× 2048:128:32 | 950 1000 | 2× 128 | 2× 32 | 7782.4 8192 | 1945.6 2048 | 2× 3072 | GDDR5 384-bit | 1500 | 2× 288 | 15 | 375 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | $1000 | |
| Model (Codename) | Launch | Architecture Fab | Transistors Die Size | Config[f] | Clock[a] (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Single | Double | Size (MiB) | Bus type & width | Clock (MHz) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Idle | Max. | Bus interface | Release Price (USD) |
| Core | Fillrate[a][b][c] | Processing power[a][d] (GFLOPS) | Memory[e] | TDP (Watts) | |||||||||||||
IGP (HD 7xxx)
- All models feature the UNB/MC Bus interface
- All models do not feature double-precision FP
- All models feature angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3.2, and Eyefinity capabilities, with up to four outputs.
- All models are based on the TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) used in the Radeon HD 69xx Series (Cayman) GPUs.
| Model | Launch | Code name | Architecture | Fab (nm) | Core Clock (MHz) | Config core[a] | Fillrate | Shared Memory | Processing power (GFLOPS) | API compliance (version) | TDP (W)[b] | APU | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Turbo | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Bus width (bit) | Bus type | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Direct3D | OpenGL[c] | OpenCL | |||||||||
| Radeon HD 7310[22] | June 6, 2012 | Ontario | TeraScale 2[d] | 40 | 500 | — | 80:8:4 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 64 | DDR3-1066 | 8.53 | 80 | 11.3 (11_0) | 4.5 | 1.2 | 18 | E2-1200 |
| Radeon HD 7340[22] | 523 | 680 | 5.44 | 2.72 | DDR3-1333 | 10.66 | 83.6–108.8 | E2-1800 | ||||||||||
| Radeon HD 7480D | June 1, 2012 | Scrapper | TeraScale 3[d] | 32 | 723 | — | 128:8:4 | 11.6 | 2.9 | 128 | DDR3-1600 | 25.6 | 185 | 65 | A4-4000, A4-5300 | |||
| Radeon HD 7540D | 760 | 192:12:4 | Unknown | DDR3-1866 | 29.9 | 292 | A6-5400K | |||||||||||
| Radeon HD 7560D | Devastator | 256:16:4 | 389 | 65–100 | A8-5500, A8-5600K | |||||||||||||
| Radeon HD 7660D | 760 | 800 | 384:24:8 | 16.2 | 2.7 | 584–614 | A10-5700 (760 MHz), A10-5800K (800 MHz) | |||||||||||
Mobile products
| Model (Codename) | Launch | Architecture (Fab) | Core | Fillrate | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Memory | Bus interface | TDP (W) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Config[a] | Clock (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Size (GiB) | Bus type & width (bit)[b] | Memory (MHz) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | ||||||
| Radeon HD 7430M (Seymour Pro) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 160:8:4:2 | 600 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 192 | 1 | DDR3 64-bit | 900 | 14.4 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | 7 |
| Radeon HD 7450M (Seymour Pro) | 700 700 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 224 | 1 | DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit | 900 800 | 14.4 25.6 | 7 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7470M (Seymour XT) | 750 800 | 6 6.4 | 3.0 3.2 | 240 256 | 1 | DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit | 900 800 | 14.4 25.6 | 7~9 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7490M (Seymour XTX) | 800 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 256 | 1 | GDDR5 64-bit | 950 | 30.4 | 9 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7510M (Thames LE) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 400:20:8:5 | 450 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 360 | 1 | DDR3 64-bit | 800 | 12.8 | 11 | |
| Radeon HD 7530M (Thames LP) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 400:24:8:5 | 450 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 360 | 1 | DDR3 64-bit | 900 | 14.4 | 11 | |
| Radeon HD 7550M (Thames Pro) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 400:20:8:5 | 450 550 | 9.0 11.0 | 3.6 4.4 | 360 440 | 1 | DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit | 900 800 | 14.4 25.6 | 13 | |
| Radeon HD 7570M (Thames Pro) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 400:20:8:5 | 450 650 | 9.0 13.0 | 3.6 5.2 | 360 520 | 1 | DDR3 GDDR5 64-bit | 900 800 | 14.4 25.6 | 13~15 | |
| Radeon HD 7590M (Thames XT) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 480:24:8:6 | 600 | 14.4 | 4.8 | 576 | 1 | GDDR5 64-bit | 800 | 25.6 | 18 | |
| Radeon HD 7610M (Thames LE) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 400:20:8:5 | 450 | 9.0 | 3.6 | 360 | 1 | DDR3 128-bit | 800 | 25.6 | 20 | |
| Radeon HD 7630M (Thames LP) | January 2012 | TeraScale 2[c] (40 nm) | 480:24:8:6 | 450 | 10.8 | 3.6 | 432 | 1 | DDR3 128-bit | 800 | 25.6 | 20~25 | |
| Radeon HD 7650M (Thames Pro) | 450 550 | 10.8 13.2 | 3.6 4.4 | 432 528 | 1 | DDR3 128-bit | 800 800 | 25.6 | 20~25 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7670M (Thames Pro) | 600 | 14.4 | 4.8 | 576 | 1 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 900 | 28.8 57.6 | 20~25 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7690M (Thames XT) | 725 600 | 17.4 14.4 | 5.8 4.8 | 696 576 | 1 2 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 900 900 | 28.8 57.6 | 20~25 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7690M XT (Thames XTX) | 725 | 17.4 | 5.8 | 696 | 1 2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 900 | 57.6 | 25 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7730M (Chelsea LP) | April 2012 | GCN 1st gen (28 nm) | 512:32:16:8 | 575 675 | 18.4 21.6 | 9.2 10.8 | 588.8 691.2 | 2 | GDDR3 128-bit | 900 900 | 28.8 | PCIe 2.1 ×16 | 25~28 |
| Radeon HD 7750M (Chelsea Pro) | 575 | 18.4 | 9.2 | 588.8 | 1 2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1000 | 64 | 28 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7770M (Chelsea XT) | 675 | 21.6 | 10.8 | 691.2 | 1 2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1000 | 64 | 32 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7850M (Heathrow Pro) | April 2012 | GCN 1st gen (28 nm) | 640:40:16:10 | 675 | 27 | 10.8 | 864 | 2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1000 | 64 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | 40 |
| Radeon HD 7870M (Heathrow XT) | 800 | 32 | 12.8 | 1024 | 2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 1000 | 64 | 40–45 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7970M (Wimbledon XT) | April 2012 | GCN 1st gen (28 nm) | 1280:80:32:20 | 850 | 68 | 27.2 | 2176 | 2 4 | GDDR5 256-bit | 1200 | 153.6 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | 75 |
Integrated (IGP) products
| Model (Codename) | Launch | Architecture (Fab) | Core config[a] | Clock rate (MHz) | Fillrate | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Shared memory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core (MHz) | Boost (MHz) | Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Bus type & width (bit) | Clock | Bandwidth (GB/s) | |||||
| Radeon HD 7400G (Scrapper) | September 2012 | TeraScale 3[b] (32 nm) | 192:12:4 | 327 | 424 | 1.31 | 3.92 | 125.57 | DDR3 128-bit | 1333 to 2133 | 21.33–34.13 |
| Radeon HD 7420G (Scrapper) | June 2012 | 128:8:4 | 480 | 655 | 1.92 | 3.84 | 122.88 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7500G (Scrapper) | May 2012 | 256:16:8 | 327 | 424 | 2.62 | 5.23 | 167.42 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7520G (Scrapper) | June 2012 | 192:12:4 | 496 | 685 | 1.98 | 5.95 | 190.46 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7600G (Devastator) | September 2012 | 384:24:8 | 320 | 424 | 2.56 | 7.68 | 245.76 | ||||
| Radeon HD 7620G (Devastator) | May 2012 | 360 | 497 | 2.88 | 8.64 | 276.48 | |||||
| Radeon HD 7640G (Devastator) | 256:16:8 | 496 | 685 | 3.97 | 7.94 | 253.95 | |||||
| Radeon HD 7660G (Devastator) | 384:24:8 | 11.9 | 380.93 | ||||||||
Radeon Feature Matrix
The following table shows features of AMD/ATI's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).
| Name of GPU series | Wonder | Mach | 3D Rage | Rage Pro | Rage 128 | R100 | R200 | R300 | R400 | R500 | R600 | RV670 | R700 | Evergreen | Northern Islands | Southern Islands | Sea Islands | Volcanic Islands | Arctic Islands/Polaris | Vega | Navi 1x | Navi 2x | Navi 3x | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Released | 1986 | 1991 | Apr 1996 | Mar 1997 | Aug 1998 | Apr 2000 | Aug 2001 | Sep 2002 | May 2004 | Oct 2005 | May 2007 | Nov 2007 | Jun 2008 | Sep 2009 | Oct 2010 | Jan 2012 | Sep 2013 | Jun 2015 | Jun 2016, Apr 2017, Aug 2019 | Jun 2017, Feb 2019 | Jul 2019 | Nov 2020 | Dec 2022 | |||
| Marketing Name | Wonder | Mach | 3D Rage | Rage Pro | Rage 128 | Radeon 7000 | Radeon 8000 | Radeon 9000 | Radeon X700/X800 | Radeon X1000 | Radeon HD 2000 | Radeon HD 3000 | Radeon HD 4000 | Radeon HD 5000 | Radeon HD 6000 | Radeon HD 7000 | Radeon 200 | Radeon 300 | Radeon 400/500/600 | Radeon RX Vega, Radeon VII | Radeon RX 5000 | Radeon RX 6000 | Radeon RX 7000 | |||
| AMD support |  |  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kind | 2D | 3D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instruction set architecture | Not publicly known | TeraScale instruction set | GCN instruction set | RDNA instruction set | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Microarchitecture | TeraScale 1 (VLIW) | TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) |
| GCN 1st gen | GCN 2nd gen | GCN 3rd gen | GCN 4th gen | GCN 5th gen | RDNA | RDNA 2 | RDNA 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Type | Fixed pipeline[a] | Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines | Unified shader model | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Direct3D | — | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 9.0 11 (9_2) | 9.0b 11 (9_2) | 9.0c 11 (9_3) | 10.0 11 (10_0) | 10.1 11 (10_1) | 11 (11_0) | 11 (11_1) 12 (11_1) | 11 (12_0) 12 (12_0) | 11 (12_1) 12 (12_1) | 11 (12_1) 12 (12_2) | |||||||||||
| Shader model | — | 1.4 | 2.0+ | 2.0b | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.1 6.5 | 6.7 | |||||||||||||||
| OpenGL | — | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.1[b][25] | 3.3 | 4.5 (on Linux: 4.5 (Mesa 3D 21.0))[26][27][28][c] | 4.6 (on Linux: 4.6 (Mesa 3D 20.0)) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vulkan | — | 1.0 (Win 7+ or Mesa 17+) | 1.2 (Adrenalin 20.1.2, Linux Mesa 3D 20.0) 1.3 (GCN 4 and above (with Adrenalin 22.1.2, Mesa 22.0)) | 1.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| OpenCL | — | Close to Metal | 1.1 (no Mesa 3D support) | 1.2+ (on Linux: 1.1+ (no Image support on clover, with by rustiCL) with Mesa 3D, 1.2+ on GCN 1.Gen) | 2.0+ (Adrenalin driver on Win7+) (on Linux ROCM, Linux Mesa 3D 1.2+ (no Image support in clover, but in rustiCL with Mesa 3D, 2.0+ and 3.0 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm), 5th gen: 2.2 win 10+ and Linux RocM 5.0+ | 2.2+ and 3.0 windows 8.1+ and Linux ROCM 5.0+ (Mesa 3D rustiCL 1.2+ and 3.0 (2.1+ and 2.2+ wip))[29][30][31] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HSA / ROCm | — | | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Video decoding ASIC | — | Avivo/UVD | UVD+ | UVD 2 | UVD 2.2 | UVD 3 | UVD 4 | UVD 4.2 | UVD 5.0 or 6.0 | UVD 6.3 | UVD 7 [32][d] | VCN 2.0 [32][d] | VCN 3.0 [33] | VCN 4.0 | ||||||||||||
| Video encoding ASIC | — | VCE 1.0 | VCE 2.0 | VCE 3.0 or 3.1 | VCE 3.4 | VCE 4.0 [32][d] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fluid Motion [e] | | | | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power saving | ? | PowerPlay | PowerTune | PowerTune & ZeroCore Power | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| TrueAudio | — | Via dedicated DSP | Via shaders | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| FreeSync | — | 1 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HDCP[f] | ? | 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.3 [34] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| PlayReady[f] | — | 3.0 | | 3.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported displays[g] | 1–2 | 2 | 2–6 | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. resolution | ? | 2–6 × 2560×1600 | 2–6 × 4096×2160 @ 30 Hz | 2–6 × 5120×2880 @ 60 Hz | 3 × 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz [35] | 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor | 7680x4320 @165 HZ | |||||||||||||||||||
/drm/radeon[h] | | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
/drm/amdgpu[h] | — | Experimental [36] | Optional [37] | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphics device drivers
AMD's proprietary graphics device driver "Catalyst"
AMD Catalyst is being developed for Microsoft Windows and Linux. As of July 2014, other operating systems are not officially supported. This may be different for the AMD FirePro brand, which is based on identical hardware but features OpenGL-certified graphics device drivers.
AMD Catalyst supports all features advertised for the Radeon brand.
Free and open-source graphics device driver "Radeon"
The free and open-source drivers are primarily developed on Linux and for Linux, but have been ported to other operating systems as well. Each driver is composed out of five parts:
- Linux kernel component DRM
- Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display controller
- user-space component libDRM
- user-space component in Mesa 3D;
- a special and distinct 2D graphics device driver for X.Org Server, which if finally about to be replaced by Glamor
The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs.[5]
The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.[38]