AMD Radeon Rx 200 series

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This article is about the GPU series announced in 2013. For the similarly named series, released in 2001 by ATI, see R200.
AMD Radeon R9/R7/R5 200 Series
AMD Radeon graphics logo
Release date Announced: September 25, 2013
Released: October 8, 2013
Codename Southern Islands
Sea Islands
Volcanic Islands
Cards
Entry-level Radeon R5 210
Radeon R5 220
Radeon R5 230
Radeon R5 235
Radeon R5 235X
Mid-range Radeon R7 240
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 250X
Radeon R7 260
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R7 265
High-end Radeon R9 270
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R9 285
Enthusiast Radeon R9 290
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R9 295X2
Rendering support
Direct3D Direct3D 12.0
Shader Model 5.0 (GCN only)
OpenCL OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL OpenGL 4.5[1]
Mantle Vulkan 1.0
History
Predecessor Radeon HD 7000 Series
Radeon HD 8000 Series
Successor AMD Radeon Rx 300 Series

The Rx 200 series is a family of GPUs developed by AMD. A "preview" was seen on September 25, 2013.[2][3][4] These GPUs are manufactured on a 28 nm Gate-Last process through TSMC or Common Platform Alliance.[5]

Release

The Rx 200 series was announced on September 25, 2013, at the AMD GPU14 Tech Day event.[6] Non-disclosure agreements were lifted on October 15, except for the R9 290X, and pre-orders opened on October 3.[7]

Architecture

This article is about all products under the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series brand.

  • A GPU implementing Graphics Core Next 3 (Volcanic Islands) is found on the R9 285 (Tonga Pro) branded products.
  • A GPU implementing Graphics Core Next 2 (Sea Islands) is found on R7 260 (Bonaire), R7 260X (Bonaire XTX), R9 290 (Hawaii Pro), R9 290X (Hawaii XT), and R9 295X2 (Vesuvius) branded products.
  • A GPU implementing Graphics Core Next 1 (Southern Islands) is found on R9 270, 270X, 280, 280X, R7 240, 250, 250X, 265, and R5 240 branded products.
  • A GPU implementing TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) (Northern Islands or Evergreen) is found on R5 235X and "below" branded products.

Multi-monitor support

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Main article: AMD Eyefinity

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.[8]

AMD TrueAudio

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Main article: AMD TrueAudio

AMD TrueAudio was introduced with the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series, but can only be found on the dies of GCN 1.1/1.2 products.

Video acceleration

AMD's SIP core for video acceleration, Unified Video Decoder and Video Coding Engine, are found on all GPUs and supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver.

Use in cryptocurrency mining

Radeon GPUs once performed better in cryptocurrency mining than their Nvidia GeForce counterparts. This led to limited supply and huge price increases in Q4 of 2013 and Q1 of 2014.[9][10] Since Q2 of 2014 availability of AMD GPUs as well as pricing has, in most cases, returned to normal.

CrossFire Compatibility

Because many of the products in the range are rebadged versions of Radeon HD products, they remain compatible with the original versions when used in CrossFire mode. For example, the Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon R7 250X both use the 'Cape Verde XT' chip so have identical specifications and will work in CrossFire mode. This provides a useful upgrade option for anyone who owns an existing Radeon HD card and has a CrossFire compatible motherboard.

Desktop products

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Main article: List of AMD Rx 2xx Series GPUs

Radeon R9 295X2

The Radeon R9 295X2 was released on April 21, 2014. It is a dual GPU card. Press samples were shipped in a metal case. It is the first reference card to utilize a closed looped liquid cooler.[11][12] At 11.5 teraflops of computing power, the R9 295X2 was the most powerful dual-gpu consumer-oriented card in the world, until it was succeeded by the Radeon Pro Duo on April 26, 2016. It is essentially a combination of two (2) R9 290X Hawai'i GPUs on a single card.[11]

Radeon R9 290X

File:Sapphire Radeon R9 290X-front oblique PNr°0437.jpg
A R9 290X by Sapphire

The Radeon R9 290X, codename "Hawaii XT", was released on October 24, 2013 and features 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 512-bit wide buses, 44 CUs (compute units) and 8 ACE units. The R9 290X had a launch price of $549.

Radeon R9 290

The Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X were announced on September 25, 2013.[13][14] The R9 290 is based on AMD's Hawaii Pro chip and R9 290X on Hawaii XT. R9 290 and R9 290X will support AMD TrueAudio, Mantle, Direct3D 11.2, and bridge-free Crossfire technology using XDMA. A limited "Battlefield 4 Edition" pre-order bundle of R9 290X that includes Battlefield 4 was available on October 3, 2013, with reported quantity being 8,000. The R9 290 had a launch price of $399.

Radeon R9 285

The Radeon R9 285 was announced on August 23, 2014 at AMD's 30 years of graphics celebration and released September 2, 2014. It was the first card to feature AMD's GCN 1.2 microarchitecture, in the form of a Tonga-series GPU.

Radeon R9 280X

Radeon R9 280X was announced on September 25, 2013. With a launch price of $299, it is based on the Tahiti XTL chip, being a slightly upgraded, rebranded Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.

Radeon R9 280

Radeon R9 280 was announced on March 4, 2014. With a launch MSRP set at $279, it is based on a rebranded Radeon HD 7950 with an increased clock speed, from 725 MHz to 900 MHz.[15]

Radeon R9 270X

Radeon R9 270X was announced on September 25, 2013. With a launch price of $199, it is based on the Curaçao XT chip, which was formerly called Pitcairn.[16] It is speculated to be faster than a Radeon HD 7870 GHz edition. Radeon R9 270 has a launch price of $179.

Radeon R7 260X

Radeon R7 260X was announced on September 25, 2013. With a launch price of $139, it is based on the Bonaire XTX chip, a faster iteration of Bonaire XT that the Radeon HD 7790 is based on. It will have 2 GB of GDDR5 memory as standard and will also feature TrueAudio, on-chip audio DSP based on Tensilica HiFi EP architecture. The stock card features a boost clock of 1100 MHz. It has 2 Gbs of GDDR5 memory with a 6.5 GHz memory clock over a 128-bit Interface. The 260X will draw around 115 W in typical use.[17][18]

Radeon R7 250

Radeon R7 250 was announced on September 25, 2013. It has a launch price of $89.[17] The card is based on the Oland core with 384 GCN cores. In February 10, 2014, AMD announced the R7 250X which is based on the Cape Verde GPU with 640 GCN cores and an MSRP of $99.[19]

Mobile products

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Main article: List of AMD Rx M2xx Series GPUs

Chipset table

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Main articles: List of AMD graphics processing units and List of AMD Accelerated Processing Unit microprocessors

1 Unified Shaders: Texture Mapping Units: Render Output Units
2 Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
3 Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
4 Single precision performance is calculated as two times the number of shaders multiplied by the base core clock speed.
5 Double precision performance of Hawaii is 1/8 of single precision performance,[20] Tahiti is 1/4 of single precision performance, others 28 nm chip is 1/16 of single precision performance.
6 Base clock of R9 290 and R9 290X will maintain at 947 MHz and 1000 MHz before reaching 95 °C, respectively.[21]
7 The R9 285 utilizes loss-less colour compression which can increase effective memory bandwidth (relative to GCN 1.0 and 1.1 cards) in certain situations.[22][23]

Model Launch Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die Size (mm2) Bus interface Clock rate Config core1 Fillrate Memory Processing Power
GFLOPS		 TDP (W) API support (version) TrueAudio Release Price (USD)
Core (MHz) Boost (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s)2 Texture (GT/s)3 Size (MiB) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Single Precision4 Double Precision5 Idle Max. DirectX OpenGL OpenCL Mantle
Radeon R5 210 (OEM) Unknown Cedar Terascale 2 40 292 59 PCIe 2.0 ×16 400 Unknown 450 (Effective 900) 80:8:4 1.6 3.2 256 64 DDR3 7.2 64 No Unknown 19 11.0 4.1 1.2 No No Unknown
Radeon R5 220 (OEM) Unknown Caicos PRO-L Terascale 2 40 370 67 PCIe 2.0 ×16 625 650 533 (Effective 1066) 160:8:4 2.5 5 1024 64 DDR3 8.53 200 No Unknown 18 11.0[24] 3.2[24] 1.2 No No Unknown
Radeon R5 230 Apr 3, 2014[25] Caicos Terascale 2 40 370 67 PCIe 2.0 ×16 625[26] N/A 533 (Effective 1066) 160:8:4 2.5 5 1024
2048		 64 DDR3 8.53 200 No Unknown 19[27] 11.0[28] 4.1[28] 1.2 No No Unknown
Radeon R5 235 (OEM) Unknown Caicos XT Terascale 2 40 370 67 PCIe 2.0 ×16 775 Unknown 900 (Effective 1800) 160:8:4 3.1 6.2 1024 64 DDR3 14.4 248 No Unknown 35 11.0[24] 4.1[24] 1.2 No No Unknown
Radeon R5 235X (OEM) Unknown Caicos XT Terascale 2 40 370 67 PCIe 2.1 ×16 875 Unknown 900 (Effective 1800) 160:8:4 3.5 7.0 1024 64 DDR3 14.4 280 No Unknown 18 11.0[24] 4.1[24] 1.2 No No Unknown
Radeon R5 240 (OEM) Nov 1st, 2013 Oland GCN 1.0 28 1040 90 PCIe 3.0 ×8 730 780 900 (Effective 1800)
?		 320:20:8 5.84 14.6 1024
2048		 128 DDR3
GDDR5		 28.8
?		 467.2 Unknown Unknown 50 12.0 (11_1)[24] 4.3[24] 2.0 Yes No Unknown
Radeon R7 240 Oct 8, 2013 Oland PRO GCN 1.0 28 1040 90 PCIe 3.0 ×8 730 780 900 (Effective 1800)
1125 (Effective 4500)		 320:20:8 5.84 14.6 2048 128 DDR3
GDDR5		 28.8
72		 467.2
499.2		 29.2 Unknown 30 12.0 (11_1)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0[30] Yes[31] No $69
Radeon R7 250 Oct 8, 2013 Oland XT GCN 1.0 28 1040 90 PCIe 3.0 ×8 1000 1050 1150 (Effective 4600) 384:24:8 8 24 1024
2048		 128 DDR3
GDDR5		 73.6 768
806.4		 48 Unknown 75 12.0 (11_1)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0 Yes No $89
Radeon R7 250X Feb 10, 2014 Cape Verde XT GCN 1.0 28 1500 123 PCIe 3.0 ×16 1000 N/A 1125 (Effective 4500) 640:40:16 16 40 1024
2048		 128 GDDR5 72 1280 80 Unknown 95 12.0 (12_0)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0 Yes No $99
Radeon R7 260 Dec 17, 2013 Bonaire GCN 1.1 28 2080 160 PCIe 3.0 ×16 1000 N/A 1500 (Effective 6000) 768:48:16 16 48 1024 128 GDDR5 96 1536 96 Unknown 95 12.0 (12_0)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0 Yes Yes[32] $109
Radeon R7 260X Oct 8, 2013 Bonaire XTX GCN 1.1 28 2080 160 PCIe 3.0 ×16 1100 N/A 1625 (Effective 6500) 896:56:16 17.6 61.6 1024
2048		 128 GDDR5 104 1971.2 123.2 Unknown 115 12.0 (12_0)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0 Yes Yes[33] $139
Radeon R7 265 Mar 5, 2014 Curaçao PRO GCN 1.0 28 2800 212 PCIe 3.0 ×16 900 925 1400 (Effective 5600) 1024:64:32 28.8 57.6 2048 256 GDDR5 179.2 1843.2 115.2 Unknown 150 12.0 (11_1)[29] 4.3[29] 2.0 Yes No $149
Radeon R9 270 Nov 13, 2013 Curaçao PRO GCN 1.0 28 2800 212 PCIe 3.0 ×16 900 925 1400 (Effective 5600) 1280:80:32 28.8 72 2048 256 GDDR5 179.2 2304
2368		 144
148		 Unknown 150 12.0 (11_1)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes No $179
Radeon R9 270X Oct 8, 2013 Curaçao XT GCN 1.0 28 2800 212 PCIe 3.0 ×16 1000 1050 1400 (Effective 5600) 1280:80:32 32 80 2048
4096		 256 GDDR5 179.2 2560
2688		 160
168		 Unknown 180 12.0 (11_1)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes No $199
Radeon R9 280 Mar 4, 2014 Tahiti PRO3 GCN 1.0 28 4313 352 PCIe 3.0 ×16 827 933 1250 (Effective 5000) 1792:112:32 26.5 92.6 3072 384 GDDR5 240 2964
3343.9		 741
836		 Unknown 250[35] 12.0 (11_1)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes No $249
Radeon R9 280X Oct 8, 2013 Tahiti XT2
Tahiti XTL[36]		 GCN 1.0 28 4313 352 PCIe 3.0 ×16 850 1000 1500 (Effective 6000) 2048:128:32 27.2 109 3072 384 GDDR5 288 3481.6
4096		 870.4
1024		 Unknown 250 12.0 (11_1)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes No $299
Radeon R9 285 Sep 2, 2014 Tonga PRO GCN 1.2 28 5000[23] 359[23] PCIe 3.0 ×16 up to 918[37] N/A 1375 (Effective 5500) 1792:112:32 29.4 102.8 2048 256 GDDR5 176 3290 205.6[38] Unknown 190 12.0 (12_0)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes Yes $249
Radeon R9 290 Nov 5, 2013 Hawaii PRO GCN 1.1 28 6200[39] 438 PCIe 3.0 ×16 up to 9476 N/A 1250 (Effective 5000) 2560:160:64 60.608 151.52 4096 512 GDDR5 320 4848.6 606.1 Unknown 275 12.0 (12_0)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes Yes $399
Radeon R9 290X Oct 24, 2013 Hawaii XT GCN 1.1 28 6200[39] 438 PCIe 3.0 ×16 up to 10006 N/A 1250 (Effective 5000) 2816:176:64 64 176 4096 512 GDDR5 320 5632 704 Unknown 290 12.0 (12_0)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes Yes $549
Radeon R9 295X2[40] Apr 8, 2014 Vesuvius GCN 1.1 28 2× 6200 2× 438 PCIe 3.0 ×16 1018 N/A 1250 (Effective 5000) 2× 2816:176:64 2× 65.152 2× 179.168 2× 4096 2× 512 GDDR5 2× 320 11466.752 1433.344 Unknown 500 12.0 (12_0)[34] 4.3[34] 2.0 Yes Yes $1499
Model Launch Codename Architecture Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die Size (mm2) Bus interface Clock rate Config core1 Fillrate Memory Processing Power
GFLOPS		 TDP (W) API support (version) True Audio Release Price (USD)
Core (MHz) Boost (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s)2 Texture (GT/s)3 Size (MiB) Bus width (bit) Bus type Bandwidth (GB/s) Single Precision4 Double Precision5 Idle Max. DirectX OpenGL OpenCL Mantle

1 Unified Shaders: Texture Mapping Units: Render Output Units
2 Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
3 Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
4 Single precision performance is calculated as two times the number of shaders multiplied by the base core clock speed.
5 Double precision performance of Hawaii is 1/8 of single precision performance,[20] Tahiti is 1/4 of single precision performance, others 28 nm chip is 1/16 of single precision performance.
6 Base clock of R9 290 and R9 290X will maintain at 947 MHz and 1000 MHz before reaching 95 °C, respectively.[21]
7 The R9 285 utilizes loss-less colour compression which can increase effective memory bandwidth (relative to GCN 1.0 and 1.1 cards) in certain situations.[22][23]
8 The AMD OpenCL 2.0 driver is compatible with AMD graphics products based on GCN first generation products or higher. -> GCN 1.0+ [41]
9 OpenCL™ 2.0 conformance logs submitted (pending ratification) for: AMD Radeon HD 7790, AMD Radeon HD 8770, AMD Radeon HD 8500M/8600M/8700M/8800M/8900M Series, AMD Radeon R5 M240, AMD Radeon R7 200 Series, AMD Radeon R9 290, AMD Radeon R9 290X, A-Series AMD Radeon R4 Graphics, A-Series AMD Radeon R5 Graphics, A-Series AMD Radeon R6 Graphics, A-Series AMD Radeon R7 Graphics, AMD FirePro W5100, AMD FirePro W9100, AMD FirePro S9150 [42]

Graphics device drivers

AMD's proprietary graphics device driver "Catalyst"

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Main article: AMD Catalyst

AMD Catalyst is being developed for Microsoft Windows and Linux. As of July 2014, other operating system 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 of course all features advertised for the Radeon brand.

Free and open-source graphics device driver "Radeon"

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Main article: free and open-source "radeon" graphics device driver

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.[43] Unlike the nouveau project for Nvidia graphics cards, the open-source "Radeon" drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.[44]

See also

References

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  41. ↑ http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/OpenCL2-Driver.aspx
  42. ↑ http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/system-requirements-driver-compatibility/
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