User:Wikiinger/sandbox/AMD GPU features
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The following table shows features of Radeon-branded GPU microarchitectures.
| R100 | R200 | R300 | R400 | R500
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| Released | Apr 2000 | Aug 2001 | Sep 2002 | May 2004 | Oct 2005
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| Instruction set | not publicly known | TeraScale instruction set | GCN instruction set | ||||||||||||
| Microarchitecture | TeraScale 1 (VLIW5) | TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) | TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) | GCN 1st gen | GCN 2nd gen | GCN 3rd gen | GCN 4th gen | GCN 5th gen | |||||||
| Type | Fixed pipeline[a] | Programmable pixel&vertex pipelines | Unified shader model | Unified shader model | |||||||||||
| Direct3D | 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) | ||||
| Shader Model | — | 1.4 | 2.0+ | 2.0b | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 6.0 | ||||
| OpenGL | 1.3 | 2.0[b] | 3.3 | 4.4[c] | 4.5 | ||||||||||
| Vulkan | — | — | Linux experimental Windows 7+ full support for 1.0 |
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| OpenCL | — | Close to Metal | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.0 | |||||||||
| HSA | — | — | 
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| Power saving | ? | PowerPlay | PowerTune | PowerTune & ZeroCore Power | |||||||||||
| Unified Video Decoder | — | 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[1][d] | ||||
| Video Coding Engine | — | — | VCE 1.0 | VCE 2.0 | VCE 3.0 or 3.1 | VCE 3.4 | VCE 4.0[1][d] | ||||||||
| TrueAudio | — | — | — | Via dedicated DSP | Via shaders | ||||||||||
| FreeSync | — | — | — | 1 2 | |||||||||||
| HDCP[e] | — | — | — | 1.4 | 1.4 2.2 | ||||||||||
| PlayReady[e] | — | — | — | 3.0 (beta) | 3.0 (upcoming) | ||||||||||
| Max. displays[f] | 1–2 | 2 | 2–6 | 2–6 | |||||||||||
| Max. resolution | ? | ? | 2–6x 2560×1600 | 2–6x 4096×2160 @ 60 Hz | 2–6x 5120x2880 @ 60 Hz | 3x 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz[2] | |||||||||
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/drm/amdgpu[g]
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- ^ The Radeon 7000 Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders.
- ^ These series do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non power of two (NPOT) textures.
- ^ OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
- ^ a b The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
- ^ a b To play protected video content, it also requires card, operating system, driver, and application support. A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.
- ^ More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
- ^ a b DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. Support in this table refers to the most current version.
References
- ^ a b Killian, Zak (22 March 2017). "AMD publishes patches for Vega support on Linux". Tech Report. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- ^ http://radeon.com/_downloads/vega-whitepaper-11.6.17.pdf
- ^ Larabel, Michael (7 December 2016). "The Best Features Of The Linux 4.9 Kernel". Phoronix. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
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