The following is a list that contains general information about

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and video cards by

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, including those by ATI Technologies before 2006, based on official specifications in table-form.

Field explanations

The headers in the table listed below describe the following: * Model – The marketing name for the GPU assigned by

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. Note that ATI trademarks have been replaced by AMD trademarks starting with the Radeon HD 6000 series for desktop and

AMD FirePro AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards designed for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High-performance computing/GPGP ...

series for professional graphics. * Codename – The internal engineering codename for the GPU. * Launch – Date of release for the GPU. * Architecture – The

microarchitecture In computer engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer organization and sometimes abbreviated as µarch or uarch, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented in a particular processor. A given ISA may be impl ...

used by the GPU. * Fab – Fabrication process. Average feature size of components of the GPU. * Transistors –

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transistors upright=1.4, gate (G), body (B), source (S) and drain (D) terminals. The gate is separated from the body by an insulating layer (pink). A transistor is a semiconductor device used to Electronic amplifier, amplify or electronic switch, switch e ...

on the die. * Die Size – Physical surface area of the die. * Core config – The layout of the graphics pipeline, in terms of functional units. * Core clock – The reference base and boost (if available) core clock frequency. * Fillrate ** Pixel - The rate at which pixels can be rendered by the raster operators to a display. Measured in Pixels/s. ** Texture - The rate at which textures can be mapped by the texture mapping units onto a polygon mesh. Measured in Texels/s. * Performance ** Shader operations - How many operations the pixel shaders (or

unified shader In the field of 3D computer graphics, the unified shader model (known in Direct3D 10 as " Shader Model 4.0") refers to a form of shader hardware in a graphical processing unit (GPU) where all of the shader stages in the rendering pipeline (geome ...

s in

Direct3D 10 Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games. Direct3D uses hardwa ...

and newer GPUs) can perform. Measured in Operations/s. ** Vertex operations - The amount of geometry operations that can be processed on the vertex shaders in one second (only applies to Direct3D 9.0c and older GPUs). Measured in Vertices/s. * Memory ** Bus type – Type of memory bus utilized. ** Bus width – Maximum bit width of the memory bus utilized. ** Size – Size of the graphics memory. ** Clock – The reference memory clock frequency. ** Bandwidth – Maximum theoretical

memory bandwidth Memory bandwidth is the rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by a central processing unit, processor. Memory bandwidth is usually expressed in units of bytes per second, bytes/second, though this can vary for ...

based on bus type and width. * TDP ( Thermal design power) – Maximum amount of heat generated by the GPU chip, measured in Watt. * TBP (Typical board power) – Typical power drawn by the total board, including power for the GPU chip and peripheral equipment, such as

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, memory, fans, etc., measured in Watt. * Bus interface – Bus by which the graphics processor is attached to the system (typically an expansion slot, such as

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, or PCIe). * API support – Rendering and computing APIs supported by the GPU and driver. Due to conventions changing over time, some numerical definitions such as core config, core clock, performance and memory should not be compared one-to-one across generations. The following tables are for reference use only, and do not reflect actual performance.

Video codec acceleration

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- Video Immersion *

R200 The R200 is the second generation of GPUs used in Radeon graphics cards and developed by ATI Technologies. This GPU features 3D acceleration based upon Microsoft Direct3D 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3, a major improvement in features and performance c ...

- Video Immersion II * R300 - Video Immersion II +

Video Shader Video Shader is a graphics card feature that ATI advertises on their R300 and R400 cards. The R500 card is advertised as having Video Shader HD. Video shader is a feature that describes ATI's process of using Pixel Shaders to improve quality o ...

* R410 - Video Shader HD *

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- Video Shader HD +

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R520 The R520 (codenamed Fudo) is a graphics processing unit (GPU) developed by ATI Technologies and produced by TSMC. It was the first GPU produced using a 90 nm photolithography process. The R520 is the foundation for a line of DirectX 9.0c a ...

- Avivo Video * R600 - Avivo HD -

UVD Unified Video Decoder (UVD, previously called Universal Video Decoder) is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1. UVD was introduced with ...

1.0 * R700 - UVD 2, UVD 2.2 *

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- UVD 2.2 * Northern Islands - UVD 3 (HD 67xx UVD 2.2) * Southern Islands - UVD 3.1, VCE 1.0 * Sea Islands - UVD 4.2, VCE 2.0 *

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- UVD 5.0, 6.0, VCE 3.0 * Arctic Islands - UVD 6.3, VCE 3.4 *

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- UVD 7.0, VCE 4.0 and VCN 1.0 only at

AMD Raven Ridge AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known as Fusion, is a series of 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), combining a general-purpose AMD64 central processing unit ( CPU) and integrated graphics processing unit ...

* Navi 1X - VCN 2.0 * Navi 2X - VCN 3.0

Features Overview

API Overview

Desktop GPUs

Wonder series

Mach series

Rage series

Pixel pipeline In computer graphics, a computer graphics pipeline, rendering pipeline or simply graphics pipeline, is a conceptual model that describes what steps a graphics system needs to perform to Rendering (computer graphics), render a ...

s : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² OpenGL 1.0 (Generic 2D) is provided through software implementations.

Radeon 7000 series

* All models include Direct3D 7.0 and

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardwa ...

1.3 * The R100 cards were originally launched without any numbering as Radeon SDR, DDR, LE and VE; these products were later "rebranded" to their names within the numbered naming scheme, when the Radeon 8000 series was introduced. ¹

s : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

^A First number indicates cards with 32MB of memory. Second number indicates cards with 64MB of memory.
^B First number indicates OEM cards. Second number indicates Retail cards.

IGP (3xx series)

* All models are manufactured with a 180 nm fabrication process * All models include Direct3D 7.0 and

1.3 * Based on the Radeon VE ¹

s : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Radeon 8000 & 9000 series

* All models are manufactured with a 150 nm fabrication process * All models include Direct3D 8.1 and

1.4 ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

IGP (9000 series)

* All models are manufactured with a 150 nm fabrication process * All models include Direct3D 8.1 and

1.4 * Based on the Radeon 9200 ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Radeon R300 series

AGP (9000 series, X1000 series)

* All models include Direct3D 9.0 and

2.0 * All models use an AGP 8x interface ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² The 256-bit version of the 9800 SE when unlocked to 8-pixel pipelines with third party driver modifications should function close to a full 9800 Pro.

PCI-E (X3xx, X5xx, X6xx, X1000 series)

* All models include Direct3D 9.0 and

2.0 * All models use a PCI-E x16 interface ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

IGP (X2xx, 11xx series)

* All models include Direct3D 9.0 and

2.0 * Based on the Radeon X300 ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Radeon X700 & X800 series

AGP (X7xx, X8xx)

* All models include

8x * All models include Direct3D 9.0b and

2.0 ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

PCI-E (X5xx, X7xx, X8xx, X1000 series)

* All models include

PCI-E PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common mot ...

x16 * All models include Direct3D 9.0b and

2.0 ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

IGP (X12xx, 21xx)

* All models include Direct3D 9.0b and

2.0 * Based on Radeon X700

Radeon X1000 series

* Note that ATI X1000 series cards (e.g. X1900) don't have Vertex Texture Fetch, hence they do not fully comply with the VS 3.0 model. Instead, they offer a feature called "Render to Vertex Buffer (R2VB)" that provides functionality that is an alternative Vertex Texture Fetch. ¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Radeon HD 2000 series

Radeon HD 3000 series

IGP (HD 3000)

* All Radeon HD 3000 IGP models include Direct3D 10.0 and

3.3 ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² The clock frequencies may vary in different usage scenarios, as

AMD PowerPlay AMD PowerPlay is the brand name for a set of technologies for the reduction of the energy consumption implemented in several of AMD's graphics processing units and APUs supported by their proprietary graphics device driver "Catalyst". AMD PowerP ...

technology is implemented. The clock frequencies listed here refer to the officially announced clock specifications.
³ The sideport is a dedicated memory bus. It is preferably used for a frame buffer.

All-in-Wonder series

¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Radeon HD 4000 series

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.
³ The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.
⁴ All models feature

UVD2 Unified Video Decoder (UVD, previously called Universal Video Decoder) is the name given to AMD's dedicated video decoding ASIC. There are multiple versions implementing a multitude of video codecs, such as H.264 and VC-1. UVD was introduced with ...

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IGP (HD 4000)

* All Radeon HD 4000 IGP models include Direct3D 10.1 and OpenGL 2.0 ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² The clock frequencies may vary in different usage scenarios, as ATI PowerPlay technology is implemented. The clock frequencies listed here refer to the officially announced clock specifications.
³ The sideport is a dedicated memory bus. It preferably used for frame buffer.

Radeon HD 5000 series

* The HD5000 series is the last series of AMD GPUs which supports two analog

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-monitors with a single graphics card (i.e. with two RAM-DACs) * AMD Eyefinity introduced.

Radeon HD 6000 series

• The Radeon HD 6000 series has a new tesselation engine which is said to double the performance when working with tesselation compared to the previous HD 5000 series.

IGP (HD 6000)

* All models feature the UNB/MC Bus interface * All models do not feature double-precision FP * With driver Update OpenGL 4.4 available (Last Catalyst 15.12). OpenGL 4.5 available with Crimson Beta (driver version 15.30 or higher). * All models feature Angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3, and AMD Eyefinity capabilities, with up to three outputs. * All models feature 3D Blu-ray Disc acceleration.

Radeon HD 7000 series

IGP (HD 7000)

* All models feature the UNB/MC Bus interface * All models do not support double-precision FP * TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) based APUs feature angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3, and

Eyefinity AMD Eyefinity is a brand name for AMD video card products that support multi-monitor setups by integrating multiple (up to six) display controllers on one GPU. AMD Eyefinity was introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 Series "Evergreen" in September 2 ...

capabilities, with up to three outputs. * TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) based APUs feature angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3.2, and

capabilities, with up to four outputs.

Radeon HD 8000 series

Radeon 200 series

Radeon 300 series

Radeon 400 series

Radeon 500 series

Radeon RX Vega series

Radeon VII series

Radeon RX 5000 series

Radeon RX 6000 series

Radeon RX 7000 series

Mobile GPUs

Such chips are either soldered to the mainboard or to some Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM).

Rage Mobility series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units.

Mobility Radeon series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units.

Mobility Radeon X300, X600, X700, X800 series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units.

Mobility Radeon X1000 series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units.

Mobility Radeon HD 2000 series

OpenGL 3.3 is possible with latest drivers for all RV6xx. ¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units.
² Unified Shaderss : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Mobility Radeon HD 3000 series

¹ Unified Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series

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.

Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series

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.

Radeon HD 6000M series

IGP (HD 6000)

* All models feature the UNB/MC Bus interface * All models do not feature double-precision FP * All models feature Angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3, and

capabilities, with up to three outputs.

IGP (HD 6000G)

* All models include

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11,

4.4 and

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1.2 * All models feature the UNB/MC Bus interface * All models do not feature double-precision FP * All models feature Angle independent anisotropic filtering, UVD3 and

capabilities, with up to three outputs. * All models feature VLIW5 ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Compute units
² TDP specified for AMD reference designs, includes CPU power consumption. Actual TDP of retail products may vary.

Radeon HD 7000M series

IGP (HD 7000G)

Radeon HD 8000M series

Radeon M200 series

Radeon M300 series

Radeon M400 series

Radeon 500 series

Radeon 600 series

Radeon RX 5000M series

Radeon RX 6000M series

Workstation GPUs

FireGL series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Compute Units

FireMV (Multi-View) series

¹ Vertex shaders : Pixel shaders : Texture mapping unit : Render output units
² Unified shaders : Texture mapping unit : Render output units

FirePro (Multi-View) series

FirePro 3D series (V000)

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Compute Units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory
³ Windows 7, 8.1, 10 Support for Fire Pro Cards with Terascale 2 and later by firepro driver 15.301.2601

FirePro series (Vx900)

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Compute Units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.
³ Support for Windows 7, 8.1 for OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 2.0, when Hardware is prepared with firepro driver 14.502.1045

FirePro Workstation series (Wx000)

* Vulkan 1.0 and OpenGL 4.5 possible for GCN with Driver Update FirePro equal to Radeon Crimson 16.3 or higher. * Vulkan 1.1 possible for GCN with Radeon Pro Software 18.Q1.1 or higher. It might not fully apply to GCN 1.0 or 1.1 GPUs. ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Compute Units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.
³ OpenGL 4.4: support with AMD FirePro driver release 14.301.000 or later, in footnotes of specs

FirePro D-Series

In 2014, AMD released the D-Series specifically for

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workstations. ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : compute units

FirePro Workstation series (Wx100)

* Vulkan 1.0 and OpenGL 4.5 possible for GCN with Driver Update FirePro equal to Radeon Crimson 16.3 or higher. OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 possible for all OpenCL 2.0-Cards with Driver Update in Future (Khronos). Linux Support for OpenCL is limited with AMDGPU Driver 16.60 actual to Version 1.2. * Vulkan 1.1 possible for GCN with Radeon Pro Software 18.Q1.1 or higher. It might not fully apply to GCN 1.0 or 1.1 GPUs. ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : compute units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.
³ OpenGL 4.4: support with AMD FirePro driver release 14.301.000 or later, in footnotes of specs

FirePro Workstation series (Wx300)

* Vulkan 1.1 possible for GCN with Radeon Pro Software 18.Q1.1 or higher. It might not fully apply to GCN 1.0 or 1.1 GPUs.

Radeon PRO series

Radeon Pro WX x100 series

* Vulkan 1.1 possible for GCN with Radeon Pro Software 18.Q1.1 or higher.

Radeon Pro WX x200 series

Radeon Pro Vega series

Radeon Pro 5000 series

Radeon Pro W5000 series

Radeon Pro W6000 series

Mobile Workstation GPUs

Mobility FireGL series

FirePro Mobile series

Radeon Pro WX x100 Mobile series

* Half Precision Power (FP16) is equal single precision power (FP32) in 4th GCN Generation (in 5th Gen: Half Precision (FP16) = 2x SP (FP32))

Radeon Pro 400 series

Radeon Pro 500 series

Radeon Pro WX x200 Mobile series

Radeon Pro Vega series

Radeon Pro 5000M series

Radeon Pro W5000M series

Radeon Pro W6000M series

Server GPUs

FireStream series

FirePro Remote series

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : compute units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.

FirePro Server series (S000x/Sxx 000)

* Vulkan 1.0 and OpenGL 4.5 possible for GCN with Driver Update FirePro equal to Radeon Crimson 16.3 or higher. OpenGL 4.5 was only in Windows available. Actual Linux Driver support OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan 1.0, but only OpenCL 1.2 by AMDGPU Driver 16.60. * Vulkan 1.1 possible for GCN with Radeon Pro Software 18.Q1.1 or higher. It might not fully apply to GCN 1.0 or 1.1 GPUs. ¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units: Compute units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.
³ OpenGL 4.4: support with AMD FirePro driver release 14.301.000 or later, in footnotes of specs

Radeon Sky series

Radeon Pro V series

Radeon Instinct series

Embedded GPUs

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² CU = Compute units
³ The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory.

Console GPUs

¹ Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
⁴ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : RT Cores ³ 12.8 GB/s texture bandwidth. 9.6 GB/s framebuffer and Z-buffer bandwidth. * The Latte looks similar to the RV730 used in the Radeon HD4650/4670. Although It's an even closer possibly exact specification match to the HD5550 as it has exactly the same clock, number of Shaders, Texture mapping units & Render Outputs

References

External links

TechPowerUp! GPU Database
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