Radeon HD 7000 series

The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD,[10] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.[11] The primary competitor of Southern Islands, Nvidia's GeForce 600 Series (also manufactured at TSMC), also shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.[12]

AMD Radeon HD 7000 series
Release dateJanuary 9, 2012 (January 9, 2012)
CodenameSouthern Islands
London
Trinity
Sea Islands
ArchitectureTeraScale 2
TeraScale 3
GCN 1st gen
GCN 2nd gen
Transistors
  • 292M 40 nm (Cedar)
  • 370M 40 nm (Caicos)
  • 716M 40 nm (Turks)
  • 1.500B 28 nm (Cape Verde)
  • 2.080B 28 nm (Bonaire)
  • 2.800B 28 nm (Pitcairn)
  • 4.313B 28 nm (Tahiti)
Cards
Entry-level73xx - 76xx
Mid-range7750
7770
7790
High-end7850
7870
7950
7970
Enthusiast7990
API support
Direct3D
OpenCLOpenCL 2.0 (GCN version) [2]
OpenGLOpenGL 4.5[3][4][5][6][7] OpenGL 4.6 (GCN only, Win 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+, Linux Mesa: WIP) [8]
VulkanVulkan 1.0 (GCN only) [4] [5][9]
SPIR-V
History
PredecessorRadeon HD 6000 series
VariantRadeon HD 8000 series
SuccessorRadeon R5/R7/R9 200 series

Architecture

Graphics Core Next was introduced with the Radeon HD 7000 Series.

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.[14]

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) [15] 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 die and package of a Radeon HD 7870 graphics card.

The 28 nm product line is divided in three dies (Tahiti, Pitcairn, and Cape Verde), each one roughly doubling in shader units (32, 20 and 10 respectively). While this gives roughly a doubling of 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.[16] 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.[16]

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.[17] The Radeon HD 7970 features 2048 usable stream cores,[upper-alpha 1] 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.[19]

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. On 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).[20][21]

Chipset table

Radeon HD 7750 card using a fanless design

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.[22]
  • Bonaire XT is the only card in the 7000 series to support True Audio.
Model
(Codename)
Launch Architecture
Fab
Transistors
Die Size
Core Fillrate[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Processing power[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4]
(GFLOPS)
Memory[lower-alpha 5] TDP (Watts) Bus interface Release Price (USD)
Config[lower-alpha 6] Clock[lower-alpha 1] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Single Double Size (MiB) Clock (MHz) Bus type
& width (bit)
Bandwidth (GB/s) Idle Max.
Radeon HD 7350
(Cedar)
January 2012 TeraScale 2
40 nm
292×106
59 mm2
80:8:4 400
650
3.2
5.2
1.6
2.6
104 N/A 256
512
400
800
900
DDR2
DDR3

64-bit

6.4
12.8
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
N/A 512
1024
533
800
DDR3
64-bit
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
N/A 512
1024
800
900
DDR3
GDDR5
64-bit
12.8
14.4
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 N/A 1024 667 DDR3
128-bit
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 N/A 512
1024
900
1000
DDR3
GDDR5
128-bit
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 N/A 512
1024
1000 GDDR5
128-bit
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 1125 DDR3
GDDR5
128-bit
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
800
1125
DDR3
GDDR5
128-bit
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
1125 GDDR5
128-bit
72 10 80 PCIe 3.0 ×16 $160
Radeon HD 7790
(Bonaire XT)
March 2013 GCN 2nd gen
28 nm
2080×106
1602
896:56:16 1000 56.0 16.0 1792 128 1024
2048
1500 GDDR5
128-bit
96 10 85 PCIe 3.0 ×16 $150
Radeon HD 7850
(Pitcairn Pro)
March 2012 GCN 1st gen
28 nm
2800×106
212mm2
1024:64:32 860 55.04 27.52 1761.28 110.08 1024
2048
1200 GDDR5
256-bit
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
352mm2
1536:96:32 925
975
88.8 29.6 2841.6
2995.2
710.4
748.8
2048 1500 GDDR5
256-bit
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 1250 GDDR5
384-bit
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 1250 GDDR5
384-bit
240 15 225 PCIe 3.0 ×16 $330
Radeon HD 7970
(Tahiti XT)
January 2012 2048:128:32 925 118.4 29.6 3788.8 947.2 3072
6144
1375 GDDR5
384-bit
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
1500 GDDR5
384-bit
288 15 250 PCIe 3.0 ×16 $500
Radeon HD 7990
(New Zealand)
April 2013 4313×106
352 mm2
2× 2048:128:32 950
1000
2× 128 2× 32 7782.4
8192
1945.6
2048
2× 3072 1500 GDDR5
384-bit
2× 288 15 375 PCIe 3.0 ×16 $1000
Model
(Codename)
Launch Architecture
Fab
Transistors
Die Size
Config[lower-alpha 6] Clock[lower-alpha 1] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Single Double Size (MiB) Clock
(MHz)
Bus type
& width (bit)
Bandwidth (GB/s) Idle Max. Bus interface Release Price (USD)
Core Fillrate[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Processing power[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 4]
(GFLOPS)
Memory[lower-alpha 5] TDP (Watts)
  1. Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with DDR memory.
  6. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units

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 Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Core Clock (MHz) Config core[lower-alpha 1] Fillrate Shared Memory Processing power
(GFLOPS)
API compliance (version) TDP (W)[lower-alpha 2] APU
Base Turbo Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Direct3D OpenGL[lower-alpha 3] OpenCL
Radeon HD 7310[24] June 6, 2012 Ontario TeraScale 2 40 500 N/A 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[24] 523 680 5.44 2.72 DDR3-1333 10.66 83.6108.8 E2-1800
Radeon HD 7480D June 1, 2012 Scrapper TeraScale 3 32 723 N/A 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 65100 A8-5500, A8-5600K
Radeon HD 7660D 760 800 384:24:8 16.2 2.7 584614 A10-5700 (760 MHz), A10-5800K (800 MHz)
  1. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  2. TDP specified for AMD reference designs, includes CPU power consumption. Actual TDP of retail products may vary.
  3. OpenGL 4.5 possible for Terascale 3 with AMD Radeon Software Crimson Beta (driver 15.30 or higher).[23]

Mobile products

A Radeon HD 7970M GPU on a Mobile PCI Express Module
Model
(Codename)
Launch Architecture
(Fab)
Core Fillrate Processing power
(GFLOPS)
Memory Bus interface TDP (W)
Config[lower-alpha 1] Clock (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Size (GiB) Bus type &
width (bit)[lower-alpha 2]
Memory (MHz) Bandwidth (GB/s)
Radeon HD 7430M
(Seymour Pro)
January 2012 TeraScale 2
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 4045
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
  1. Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  2. The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.

Integrated (IGP) products

Model
(Codename)
Launch Architecture
(Fab)
Core config[lower-alpha 1] 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
(32 nm)
192:12:4 327 424 1.31 3.92 125.57 DDR3
128-bit
1333 to 2133 21.3334.13
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's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).

Name of GPU series Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage R100 R200 R300 R400 R500 R600 RV670 R700 Evergreen Northern
Islands
Southern
Islands
Sea
Islands
Volcanic
Islands
Arctic
Islands/Polaris
Vega Navi Big Navi
Released 1986 1991 1996 1997 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 Jun 2017 Jul 2019 Nov 2020
Marketing Name Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage 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 Rx 200 Radeon Rx 300 Radeon RX 400/500 Radeon RX Vega/Radeon VII(7nm) Radeon RX 5000 Radeon RX 6000
AMD support
Kind 2D 3D
Instruction set Not publicly known TeraScale instruction set GCN instruction set RDNA instruction set
Microarchitecture TeraScale 1 TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen GCN 3rd gen GCN 4th gen GCN 5th gen RDNA RDNA 2
Type Fixed pipeline[lower-alpha 1] Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines Unified shader model
Direct3D N/A 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_2)
12 (12_2)
Shader model N/A 1.4 2.0+ 2.0b 3.0 4.0 4.1 5.0 5.1 5.1
6.3
6.4 6.5
OpenGL N/A 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.0[lower-alpha 2] 3.3 4.5 (on Linux + Mesa 3D: 4.5 with FP64 HW support, 4.3 without)[3][6][7][lower-alpha 3] 4.6 (on Linux: 4.6 (Mesa 20.0))
Vulkan N/A 1.0
(Win 7+ or Mesa 17+)
1.2 (Adrenalin 20.1, Linux Mesa 20.0)
OpenCL N/A Close to Metal 1.1 1.2 2.0 (Adrenalin driver on Win7+)
(on Linux: 1.2 with Mesa 3D, 2.1 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm)
? 2.1 [25]
HSA N/A ?
Video decoding ASIC N/A 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[26][lower-alpha 4] VCN 2.0[26][lower-alpha 4] VCN 3.0[27]
Video encoding ASIC N/A VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 VCE 3.0 or 3.1 VCE 3.4 VCE 4.0[26][lower-alpha 4]
Fluid Motion
Power saving ? PowerPlay PowerTune PowerTune & ZeroCore Power ?
TrueAudio N/A Via dedicated DSP Via shaders ?
FreeSync N/A 1
2
HDCP[lower-alpha 5] ? 1.4 1.4
2.2
1.4
2.2
2.3
?
PlayReady[lower-alpha 5] N/A 3.0 3.0 ?
Supported displays[lower-alpha 6] 1–2 2 2–6 ?
Max. resolution ? 2–6 ×
2560×1600
2–6 ×
4096×2160 @ 60 Hz
2–6 ×
5120×2880 @ 60 Hz
3 ×
7680×4320 @ 60 Hz[28]
?
/drm/radeon[lower-alpha 7] N/A
/drm/amdgpu[lower-alpha 7] N/A Experimental[29]
  1. The Radeon 100 Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders.
  2. These series do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
  3. OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
  4. The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
  5. To play protected video content, it also requires card, operating system, driver, and application support. A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.
  6. More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
  7. DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. Support in this table refers to the most current version.

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:

  1. Linux kernel component DRM
  2. Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display controller
  3. user-space component libDRM
  4. user-space component in Mesa 3D;
  5. 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.[7]

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.[30]

See also

Notes

  1. Corresponding to 32 cores in "the closest reasonable mapping to the equivalent in a CPU".[18]:60

References

  1. "AMD Catalyst™ 15.7.1 Driver for Windows® Release Notes". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. "AMD OpenCL™ 2.0 Driver". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  3. "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Release Notes". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
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