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The Radeon R700 is the engineering codename for a graphics processing unit series developed by Advanced Micro Devices under the ATI brand name. The foundation chip, codenamed RV770, was announced and demonstrated on June 16, 2008 as part of the FireStream 9250 and Cinema 2.0 initiative launch media event, [5] with official release of the Radeon HD 4800 series on June 25, 2008.
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
Most free and open-source graphics device drivers are developed by the Mesa project. The driver is made up of a compiler, a rendering API, and software which manages access to the graphics hardware. Drivers without freely (and legally) -available source code are commonly known as binary drivers.
Model – The marketing name for the GPU assigned by AMD/ATI. Note that ATI trademarks have been replaced by AMD trademarks starting with the Radeon HD 6000 series for desktop and AMD FirePro series for professional graphics. Codename – The internal engineering codename for the GPU. Launch – Date of release for the GPU.
The Omega ATI driver is based on ATI's Catalyst drivers. The driver is particularly notable for resolving 3D compatibility problems affecting past versions of the ATI drivers (versions 7.8-7.12) and some AGP cards. The driver includes various third-party utilities including 'MultiRes' (from EnTech Taiwan) and ATI Tray Tools tweaking utility.
Radeon HD 4850/4870 Evergreen: ... but in rustiCL with Mesa, 2.0+ and 3.0 with AMD drivers or AMD ... the free and open-source drivers can be ported to any existing ...
The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs. [30] The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD. [31]
Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 14.4 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11 on Hardware, and 10.2 for DirectX 9.0c cards. [citation needed] Windows Vista: 7.2: 13.12: Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 13.12 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11. [citation needed] Windows 7: 9.3: 18.9.3 22.6.1 [42]