Release date | 29 June 2016 |
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Codename |
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Architecture | GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen GCN 4th gen |
Transistors |
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Fabrication process | Samsung/GloFo 14 nm (FinFET) Some in 28 nm (CMOS) |
Cards | |
Entry-level | Radeon R5 420 Radeon R5 430 Radeon R5 435 Radeon R7 430 Radeon R7 435 Radeon R7 450 Radeon RX 455 Radeon RX 460 |
Mid-range | Radeon RX 470D Radeon RX 470 Radeon RX 480 |
API support | |
DirectX |
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OpenCL | OpenCL 2.1 |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5 (4.6 Windows 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] |
Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3 (GCN 4th gen) or Vulkan 1.2 [7] SPIR-V |
History | |
Predecessor | Radeon 300 series |
Successor | Radeon 500 series |
Support status | |
GCN 4 cards supported |
The Radeon 400 series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD. These cards were the first to feature the Polaris GPUs, using the new 14 nm [8] FinFET manufacturing process, developed by Samsung Electronics and licensed to GlobalFoundries. The Polaris family initially included two new chips in the Graphics Core Next (GCN) family (Polaris 11 and Polaris 12). Polaris implements the 4th generation of the Graphics Core Next instruction set, and shares commonalities with the previous GCN microarchitectures.
The RX prefix is used for cards that offer over 1.5 teraflops of performance and 80 GB/s of memory throughput (with memory compression), and achieve at least 60 FPS at 1080p in popular games such as Dota 2 and League of Legends . Otherwise, it will be omitted. Like previous generations, the first numeral in the number refers to the generation (4 in this case) and the second numeral in the number refers to the tier of the card, of which there are six. Tier 4, the weakest tier in the 400 series, will lack the RX prefix and feature a 64-bit memory bus. Tiers 5 and 6 will have both RX prefixed and non-RX prefixed cards, indicating that while they will both feature a 128-bit memory bus and be targeted at 1080p gaming, the latter will fall short 1.5 teraflops of performance. Tiers 7 and 8 will each have a 256-bit memory bus and will be marketed as 1440p cards. The highest tier, tier 9, will feature a memory bus greater than 256-bit and shall be aimed at 4K gaming. Finally, the third numeral will indicate whether the card is in its first or second revision with either a 0 or 5, respectively. Therefore, for example, the RX 460 indicates that it has at least 1.5 teraflops of performance, 100 GB/s of memory throughput, has a 128-bit memory bus and will be able to achieve 60 FPS in the previously mentioned games at 1080p. [9]
OpenCL allows use of GPUs for highly parallel numeric computation accelerates many scientific software packages against CPU up to factor 10 or 100 and more. OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all chips with Terascale or GCN architectures. OpenCL 2.0 is supported with GCN 2nd gen. or higher. [10] Any OpenCL 2.0 conformant card can gain OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 support with only a driver update.[ citation needed ]
API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all GCN architecture cards. Vulkan 1.2 requires GCN 2nd gen or higher with the Adrenalin 20.1 and Linux Mesa 20.0 drivers and newer.
This series is based on the fourth generation GCN architecture. It includes new hardware schedulers, [11] a new primitive discard accelerator, [12] a new display controller, [13] and an updated UVD that can decode HEVC at 4K resolutions at 60 frames per second with 10 bits per color channel. [13] On 8 December 2016, AMD released Crimson ReLive drivers (Version 16.12.1), which make GCN-GPUs support VP9 decode acceleration up to 4K@60 Hz and twinned with support for Dolby Vision and HDR10. [14] [15]
Polaris 10 features 2304 stream processors across 36 Compute Units (CUs), [16] and supports up to 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU replaces the mid-range Tonga segment of the Radeon M300 line. According to AMD, their prime target with the design of Polaris was energy efficiency: Polaris 10 was initially planned to be a mid-range chip, to be featured in the RX 480, with a TDP of around 110-135W [17] compared to its predecessor R9 380's 190W TDP. Despite this, the Polaris 10 chip is anticipated to run the latest DirectX 12 games "at a resolution of 1440p with a stable 60 frames per second." [17]
Polaris 11, on the other hand, is to succeed the "Curacao" GPU which powers various low-to-mid-range cards. It features 1024 stream processors over 16 CUs, coupled with up to 4GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128 bit memory interface. [18] [19] Polaris 11 has a TDP of 75W. [17] [19]
Many reviewers praised the performance of the RX 480 8GB when evaluated in light of its $239 release price. The Tech Report stated that the RX 480 is the fastest card for the $200 segment at the time of its launch. [20] HardOCP gave this card an Editor's Choice Silver award. [21] PC Perspective gave it the PC Perspective Gold Award. [22]
Some reviewers discovered that the AMD Radeon RX 480 violates the PCI Express power draw specifications, which allows a maximum of 75 watts (66 watts on its 12v pins) being drawn from the motherboard's PCI Express slot. Chris Angelini of Tom's Hardware noticed that in a stress test it can draw up to an average of 90 watts from the slot and 86 watts in a typical gaming load. [23] The peak usage can be up to 162 watts and 300 watts altogether with the power supply in a gaming load. [23] TechPowerUp corroborated these results by noting it can also draw up to 166 watts from the power supply, past the limit of 75 watts for a 6-pin PCI Express power connector. [24] Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective did a follow-up test after other reports and found out his review sample takes 80-84 watts from the motherboard at stock speed, and that the other PCI Express slots' 12 volt power supply pins were supplying only 11.5 volts during load on his Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme motherboard. [25] He was not concerned about the voltage droop due to the specification's 8% voltage tolerance, but did note of possible problems in systems where multiple overclocked RX 480 cards are running in quad CrossFire, or in motherboards that are not designed to withstand high currents, such as budget and older models. [25]
AMD has released a driver that reprograms the voltage regulator module to draw less power from the motherboard, allowing the power draw from the motherboard to pass the PCI Express specification. [26] While this worsens the overage on the 6-pin power connector, that violation is not much of a concern because these connectors have a greater safety margin in their power rating. [26] The amount of power drawn from on the connector is dependent on a newly introduced "compatibility mode" in the driver. When on, compatibility mode reduces the total power consumption of the card, allowing both power sources to operate closer to their ratings. Standard mode yields essentially unchanged performance, while compatibility mode results in performance drops within the error of benchmarks. [27] Some RX 480 cards designed by AMD's partners include an 8-pin power connector which can provide more power than the stock design. [28] [29]
Model (Codename) | Release Date & Price | Architecture & Fab | Transistors & Die Size | Core | Fillrate [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] | Processing power [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 4] (GFLOPS) | Memory | TBP | Bus interface | ||||||
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Config [lower-alpha 5] | Clock [lower-alpha 1] (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Single | Double | Size (GiB) | Bus type & width | Clock (MT/s) | Band- width (GB/s) | ||||||
Radeon R5 430 (Oland Pro) [31] [32] | June 30, 2016 OEM | GCN 1st gen 28 nm | 1040×106 90 mm2 | 384:24:8 6 CU | 730 780 | 17.52 18.72 | 5.84 6.24 | 560 599 | 37.4 40 | 1 2 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 1800 4500 | 28.8 72 | 50 W | PCIe 3.0 ×8 |
Radeon R5 435 (Oland) [31] [33] | 320:20:8 5 CU | 1030 | 20.6 | 8.24 | 659 | 41.2 | 2 | DDR3 64-bit | 2000 | 16 | |||||
Radeon R7 430 (Oland Pro) [34] [35] | 384:24:8 6 CU | 730 780 | 17.52 18.72 | 5.84 6.24 | 560 599 | 37.4 40 | 1 2 4 | DDR3 GDDR5 128-bit | 1800 4500 | 28.8 72 | |||||
Radeon R7 435 (Oland) [34] [36] | 320:20:8 5 CU | 920 | 18.4 | 7.36 | 589 | 36.8 | 2 | DDR3 64-bit | 2000 | 16 | |||||
Radeon R7 450 (Cape Verde Pro) [34] [37] | 1500×106 123 mm2 | 512:32:16 8 CU | 1050 | 33.6 | 16.8 | 1075 | 65.2 | GDDR5 128-bit | 4500 | 72 | 65 W | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | |||
Radeon RX 455 (Bonaire Pro) [34] [38] | GCN 2nd gen 28 nm | 2080×106 160 mm2 | 768:48:16 12 CU | 50.4 | 1613 | 100.8 | 6500 | 104 | 100 W | ||||||
Radeon RX 460 (Baffin) [39] [40] [41] [19] [42] | August 8, 2016 $109 USD(2 GB) $139 USD(4 GB) | GCN 4th gen GloFo 14LPP [43] [lower-alpha 6] | 3000×106 123 mm2 | 896:56:16 14 CU | 1090 1200 | 61 67.2 | 17.4 19.2 | 1953 2150 | 122 132 | 2 4 | 7000 | 112 | <75 W | PCIe 3.0 ×8 | |
Radeon RX 470D (Ellesmere) [45] | October 21, 2016 CNY ¥1299 (China Only) | 5700×106 232 mm2 | 1792:112:32 28 CU | 926 1206 | 103.7 135.1 | 29.6 38.6 | 3319 4322 | 207 270 | 4 | GDDR5 256-bit | 224 | 120 W | PCIe 3.0 ×16 | ||
Radeon RX 470 (Ellesmere Pro) [39] [41] [19] | August 4, 2016 $179 USD | 2048:128:32 32 CU | 118.5 154.4 | 3793 4940 | 237 309 | 4 8 | 6600 | 211 | |||||||
Radeon RX 480 (Ellesmere XT) [46] [47] [48] [49] | June 29, 2016 $199 USD (4 GB) $239 USD (8 GB) | 2304:144:32 36 CU | 1120 1266 | 161.3 182.3 | 35.8 40.5 | 5161 5834 | 323 365 | 7000 8000 | 224 256 | 150 W |
Model (Codename) | Launch | Architecture & Fab | Core | Fillrate [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] | Processing power [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 4] (GFLOPS) | Memory | TDP | |||||
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Config [lower-alpha 5] | Clock [lower-alpha 1] (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Bus type & width | Size (GiB) | Clock (MHz) | Band- width (GB/s) | |||||
Radeon R5 M420 [50] (Jet Pro) | 15 May 2016 | GCN 1st gen 28 nm | 320:20:8 | 780 855 | 15.6 17.1 | 6.24 6.84 | 499 547 | DDR3 64-bit | 2 | 1000 | 16.0 | ~20 W |
Radeon R5 M430 [51] (Exo Pro) | 15 May 2016 | 320:20:8 | 1030 ? | 20.6 | 8.2 | 659.2 659.2 | DDR3 64-bit | 2 | 1000 | 14.4 | 18 W | |
Radeon R7 M435 [52] (Jet Pro) | 15 May 2016 | 320:20:8 | 780 855 | 15.6 17.1 | 6.24 6.84 | 499 547 | GDDR5 64-bit | 4 | 1000 | 32 | ~20 W | |
Radeon R7 M440 [53] (Meso Pro) | 15 May 2016 | 320:20:8 | 1021 ? | 20.4 | 8.17 | 653 653 | DDR3 64-bit | 4 | 1000 | 16 | ~20 W | |
Radeon R7 M445 [54] (Meso Pro) | 14 May 2016 | 320:20:8 | 780 920 | 15.6 18.4 | 6.24 7.36 | 499 589 | GDDR5 64-bit | 4 | 1000 | 32 | ~20 W | |
Radeon R7 M460 [55] [56] (Meso XT) | April 2016 | 384:24:8 | 1100 1125 | 26.4 27.0 | 8.8 9.00 | 844 864 | DDR3 64-bit | 2 | 900 | 14.4 | Unknown | |
Radeon RX 460 [57] (Baffin) | August 2016 | GCN 4th gen 14 nm | 896:56:16 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | GDDR5 128-bit | 2 | 1750 | 112 | 35 W? |
Radeon R7 M465 [58] [59] (Litho XT) | May 2016 | GCN 1st gen 28 nm | 384:24:8 | 825 960 | 19.8 23.0 | 6.6 7.68 | 634 737 | GDDR5 128-bit | 4 | 1150 | 32 | Unknown |
Radeon R7 M465X [60] (Tropo XT) | May 2016 | 512:32:16 | 900 925 | 28.8 29.6 | 14.4 14.80 | 921 947 | GDDR5 128-bit | 4 | 1125 | 72 | Unknown | |
Radeon R9 M470 [61] (Strato Pro) | May 2016 | GCN 2nd gen 28 nm | 768:48:16 | 900 1000 | 43.2 48.0 | 14.4 16.00 | 1382 1536 | GDDR5 128-bit | 4 | 1500 | 96 | ~75 W |
Radeon R9 M470X [62] (Strato XT) | May 2016 | 896:56:16 | 1000 1100 | 56.0 61.6 | 16.00 17.60 | 1792 1971 | GDDR5 128-bit | 4 | 1500 | 96 | ~75 W | |
Radeon RX 470 [63] (Ellesmere Pro) | August 2016 | GCN 4th gen 14 nm | 2048:128:32 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | GDDR5 256-bit | 4 | 1650 | 211 | 85 W? |
Radeon RX 480M (Baffin) | TBA | 1024:xx:xx | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | GDDR5 128-bit | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | 35 W | |
Radeon R9 M485X [64] (Antigua XT) | May 2016 | GCN 3rd gen 28 nm | 2048:128:32 | 723 | 92.5 | 23.14 | 2961 | GDDR5 256-bit | 8 | 1250 | 160 | ~100 W |
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 [lower-alpha 1] | 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 [lower-alpha 2] [67] | 3.3 | 4.5 (on Linux: 4.5 (Mesa 3D 21.0)) [68] [69] [70] [lower-alpha 3] | 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 (GCN 4 and above (with Adrenalin 22.1.2, Mesa 22.0)) | 1.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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)) [71] [72] [73] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 [74] [lower-alpha 4] | VCN 2.0 [74] [lower-alpha 4] | VCN 3.0 [75] | VCN 4.0 | ||||||||||||
Video encoding ASIC | — | VCE 1.0 | VCE 2.0 | VCE 3.0 or 3.1 | VCE 3.4 | VCE 4.0 [74] [lower-alpha 4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fluid Motion [lower-alpha 5] | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power saving | ? | PowerPlay | PowerTune | PowerTune & ZeroCore Power | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||
TrueAudio | — | Via dedicated DSP | Via shaders | |||||||||||||||||||||||
FreeSync | — | 1 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
HDCP [lower-alpha 6] | ? | 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.3 [76] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PlayReady [lower-alpha 6] | — | 3.0 | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported displays [lower-alpha 7] | 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 [77] | 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor | 7680x4320 @165 HZ | |||||||||||||||||||
/drm/radeon [lower-alpha 8] | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
/drm/amdgpu [lower-alpha 8] | — | Experimental [78] |
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