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 | |||
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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] [3] | 3.3 | 4.5 (on Linux: 4.5 (Mesa 3D 21.0)) [4] [5] [6] [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 (Adrenalin 22.1.2, Mesa 22.0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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)) [7] [8] [9] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 [10] [d] | VCN 2.0 [10] [d] | VCN 3.0 [11] | VCN 4.0 | ||||||||||||
Video encoding ASIC | — | VCE 1.0 | VCE 2.0 | VCE 3.0 or 3.1 | VCE 3.4 | VCE 4.0 [10] [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 [12] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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 [13] |
7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor |
7680x4320
@165 HZ | |||||||||||||||||||
/drm/radeon
[h]
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/drm/amdgpu
[h]
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— | Experimental [14] | Optional [15] |
New VLIW4 architecture of stream processors allowed to save area of each SIMD by 10%, while performing the same compared to previous VLIW5 architecture