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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]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.
AMD Software (formerly known as Radeon Software) is a device driver and utility software package for AMD's Radeon graphics cards and APUs. Its graphical user interface is built with Qt [ 6 ] and is compatible with 64-bit Windows and Linux distributions .
The headers in the table listed below describe the following: Model – The marketing name for the GPU assigned by AMD/ATI.Note that ATI trademarks have been replaced by AMD trademarks starting with the Radeon HD 6000 series for desktop and AMD FirePro series for professional graphics.
Radeon HD 2900 XT RV670: 55 nm 10.1 11 (FL 10_1) ATI Stream APP [17] Radeon HD 3850/3870 RV770: 55 nm 40 nm 1.0 2008 Radeon HD 4850/4870 Evergreen: TeraScale 2: 40 nm 4.5 (Linux 4.2) [18] [19] [20] [c] 11 (FL 11_0) 1.2 2009 Radeon HD 5850/5870 Northern Islands: TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3: 2010 Radeon HD 6850/6870 Radeon HD 6950/6970 Southern ...
Products up to and including the HD 5000 series are branded as ATI Radeon, while the HD 6000 series and beyond use the new AMD Radeon branding. [ 3 ] On 11 September 2015, AMD's GPU business was split into a separate unit known as Radeon Technologies Group, with Raja Koduri as Senior Vice President and chief architect.
The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs. [4] Unlike the nouveau project for Nvidia graphics cards, the open-source "Radeon" drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD. [64]
Although AMDGPU only officially supports GCN 1.2 and later graphics cards, [29] experimental support for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 graphics cards (which are only officially supported by the Radeon driver) may be enabled via a kernel parameter. [30] [31] A separate libdrm, libdrm-amdgpu, has been included since libdrm 2.4.63. [32]
The graphics processing unit (GPU) codenamed the Radeon R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series and the FireGL 2007 series video cards developed by ATI Technologies. Architecture [ edit ]