Radeon HD 5000 series

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The Evergreen series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices for its Radeon line under the ATI brand name. It was employed in Radeon HD 5000 graphics card series and competed directly with Nvidia's GeForce 400 series.

ATI Radeon HD 5000 series
Release dateSeptember 10, 2009; 15 years ago (September 10, 2009)
CodenameEvergreen
Manhattan
ArchitectureTeraScale 2
Transistors
  • 292M 40 nm (Cedar)
  • 627M 40 nm (Redwood)
  • 1.040M 40 nm (Juniper)
  • 2.154M 40 nm (Cypress)
  • 2x 2.154M 40 nm (Hemlock)
Cards
Entry-level5450
5550
5570
Mid-range5670
5750
5770
High-end5830
5850
5870
Enthusiast5970
API support
DirectXDirect3D 11
(feature level 11_0) [3]
Shader Model 5.0
OpenCLOpenCL 1.2[1]
OpenGLOpenGL 4.5[2]
History
PredecessorRadeon HD 4000 series
SuccessorRadeon HD 6000 series
Support status
Unsupported

Release

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The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as "R8xx". AMD held a press event in the USS Hornet Museum on September 10, 2009[4] and announced ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and specifications of the Radeon HD 5800 series' variants. The first variants of the Radeon HD 5800 series were launched September 23, 2009, with the HD 5700 series launching October 12 and HD 5970 launching on November 18[5] The HD 5670, was launched on January 14, 2010, and the HD 5500 and 5400 series were launched in February 2010, completing what has appeared to be most of AMD's Evergreen GPU lineup.

Demand so greatly outweighed supply that more than two months after launch, many online retailers were still having trouble keeping the 5800 and 5900 series in stock.[6]

Architecture

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This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 5000 series brand. TeraScale 2 was introduced with this.

Multi-monitor support

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The on-die display controllers with the new brand name ATI Eyefinity were introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 series. The entire HD 5000 series products have Eyefinity capabilities supporting three outputs. The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition, however, supports six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.

Display pipeline supports xvYCC gamut and 12-bit per component output via HDMI. HDMI 1.3a output. The previous generation Radeon R700 GPUs in the Radeon HD 4000 series only support up to LPCM 7.1 audio and no bitstream output support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio audio formats to external decoders. This feature is now supported on Evergreen family GPUs. On Evergreen family GPUs, DisplayPort outputs on board are capable of 10-bit per component output,[7] and HDMI output is capable of 12-bit per component output.

Maximum output configurations for normal Radeon HD 5800/5700 series cards
DVI-I/VGA DVI-I/VGA HDMI DisplayPort
Option 1 Active Active Inactive Active
Option 2 Active Inactive Active Active

Video acceleration

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Unified Video Decoder (UVD2.2)[8] is present on the dies of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst 9.11 and later through DXVA 2.0 on Microsoft Windows and VDPAU on Linux and FreeBSD. The free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD also support UVD.

OpenCL (API)

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OpenCL accelerates many scientific software packages up to a factor 10 or 100 and more, compared to contemporary CPUs. OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all TeraScale 2 and 3 chips.[9]

Radeon Feature Table

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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
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
Dec
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)
TeraScale 2
(VLIW5)

up to 68xx
TeraScale 3
(VLIW4)

in 69xx [10][11]
GCN 1st
gen
GCN 2nd
gen
GCN 3rd
gen
GCN 4th
gen
GCN 5th
gen
RDNA RDNA 2 RDNA 3
Type Fixed pipeline[a] 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[b][12] 3.3 4.5[13][14][15][c] 4.6
Vulkan 1.1 1.3
OpenCL Close to Metal 1.1 (not supported by Mesa) 1.2+ (on Linux: 1.1+ (no Image support on clover, with by rustiCL) with Mesa, 1.2+ on GCN 1.Gen) 2.0+ (Adrenalin driver on Win7+)
(on Linux ROCM, Mesa 1.2+ (no Image support in clover, but in rustiCL with Mesa, 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 rustiCL 1.2+ and 3.0 (2.1+ and 2.2+ wip))[16][17][18]
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 [19][d] VCN 2.0 [19][d] VCN 3.0 [20] VCN 4.0
Video encoding ASIC VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 VCE 3.0 or 3.1 VCE 3.4 VCE 4.0 [19][d]
Fluid Motion [e]       ?
Power saving ? PowerPlay PowerTune PowerTune & ZeroCore Power ?
TrueAudio Via dedicated DSP Via shaders
FreeSync 1
2
HDCP[f] ? 1.4 2.2 2.3 [21]
PlayReady[f] 3.0   3.0
Supported displays[g] 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 [22]

7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor
7680x4320

@165 HZ

/drm/radeon[h]  
/drm/amdgpu[h] Optional [23]  
  1. ^ The Radeon 100 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.
  2. ^ R300, R400 and R500 based cards do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
  3. ^ OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
  4. ^ a b c The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
  5. ^ Video processing for video frame rate interpolation technique. In Windows it works as a DirectShow filter in your player. In Linux, there is no support on the part of drivers and / or community.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
  8. ^ a b DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. AMDgpu is the Linux kernel module. Support in this table refers to the most current version.

Desktop products

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Model Launch Code
name
Fab
(nm)
Transistors
(million)
Die size
(mm2)
Bus
interface
Clock rate Core
config[a]
Fillrate Memory Processing power
(GFLOPS)
TDP (Watts)[b] CrossFire
support
API support (version) Release price (USD)
Core
(MHz)
Memory
(MHz)
Pixel
(GP/s)
Texture
(GT/s)
Size
(MB)
Bandwidth
(GB/s)
Bus type Bus width
(Bit)
Single precision Double precision Idle Max. Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL
Radeon HD 5450 Feb 4, 2010 Cedar 40 292 59 PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI
PCIe 2.1 x1
650
650
650
400
800
800
80:8:4 2.6 5.2 512
1024
2048
6.4
12.8
DDR2
DDR3
64 104 6.4 19.1 No 11.3
(11 0)
4.5 1.2 ~50
Radeon HD 5550 Feb 9, 2010 Redwood LE 627 104 PCIe 2.1 x16 550
550
550
320:16:8 4.4 8.8 12.8
25.6
51.2
DDR2
GDDR3
GDDR5
128 352 10 39 ~70
Radeon HD 5570 Redwood PRO 650
650
400
900
400:20:8 5.2 13.0 12.8
28.8
57.6
520 80
Radeon HD 5610 May 14, 2011 650 500 1024 16.0 GDDR3 ? ?
Radeon HD 5670 Jan 14, 2010 Redwood XT 775
775
800
1000
6.2 15.5 512
1024
2048
25.6
64.0
GDDR3
GDDR5
620 15 64 4-way CrossFire 99
Radeon HD 5750 Oct 13, 2009 Juniper PRO 1040 170 700
700
1150
1150
720:36:16 11.2 25.2 512
1024
73.6 GDDR5 1008 16 86 129
Radeon HD 5770 Juniper XT 850
850
1200
1200
800:40:16 13.6 34.0 76.8 1360 18 108 159
Radeon HD 5830 Feb 25, 2010 Cypress LE 2154 334 800 1000 1120:56:16 12.8 44.8 1024 128.0 256 1792 358.4 25 175 239
Radeon HD 5850 Sep 30, 2009 Cypress PRO 725
725
1000
1000
1440:72:32 23.2 52.2 1024
2048
2088 417.6 27 151 259
Radeon HD 5870 Sep 23, 2009 Cypress XT 850
850
1200
1200
1600:80:32 27.2 68.0 153.6 2720 544 188
228
379
Radeon HD 5870
Eyefinity Edition[c][24]
Mar 11, 2010 850 1200 2048 228 479
Radeon HD 5970 Nov 18, 2009 Hemlock 2154×2 334×2 725
725
1000
1000
1600:80:32×2 46.4 116.0 1024×2
2048×2
128×2 256×2 4640 928 51 294 2-way CrossFire 599
  1. ^ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
  2. ^ The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.
  3. ^ All chips feature AMD Eyefinity, but the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition card also have six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.


Radeon HD 5900

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

Codenamed Hemlock, the Radeon HD 5900 series was announced on October 12, 2009, starting with the HD 5970.[25] The Radeon HD 5900 series utilizes two Cypress graphics processors and a third-party PCI-E bridge. Similar to Radeon HD 4800 X2 series graphics cards; however, AMD has abandoned the use of X2 moniker for dual-GPU variants starting with Radeon HD 5900 series, making it the only series within the Evergreen GPU family to have two GPUs on one PCB.

Radeon HD 5800

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A Radeon HD 5870 by Sapphire Technology

Codenamed Cypress, the Radeon HD 5800 series was announced on September 23, 2009. Products included Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. The launching model of Radeon HD 5870 can support three display outputs at most, and one of these has to support DisplayPort. In terms of overall performance, the 5870 comes in between the GTX 470 and GTX 480 from rival company Nvidia, being closer to the GTX 480 than the GTX 470.[26] An Eyefinity 6 edition of Radeon HD 5870 was released, with 2 GiB GDDR5 memory, supporting six simultaneous displays, all to be connected to one of the mini DisplayPort outputs and all supporting this connection natively to not require additional hardware. The Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 usable shader processors, while the Radeon HD 5850 has 1,440 usable stream cores, as 160 out of the 1,600 total cores are disabled during product binning which detects potentially defective areas of the chip. A Radeon HD 5830 was released on February 25, 2010. The Radeon HD 5830 has 1,120 usable stream cores and a standard core clock of 800 MHz.

Radeon HD 5700

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The codename for the 5700 GPU was Juniper and it was exactly half of Cypress. Half the shader engines, half the memory controllers, half the ROPs, half the TMUs, half everything. The 5750 had one shader engine disabled (of 10), so had 720 stream processors, while the 5770 had all ten enabled. Additionally, the 5750 ran at 700 MHz and a lower voltage, while the 5770 used more power, but ran at 850 MHz. Both cards were normally found with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, but 512 MB variants did exist, performance suffering somewhat.

Radeon HD 5600

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HD 5670 card heat-sink removed

Codenamed Redwood XT, the 5600 series has all five of Redwood's shader engines enabled. As each of them has 80 VLIW-5 units, this gave it 400 stream processors. Reference clocks were 775 MHz for all 5600s, while memory clocks varied between OEMs, as did the use of DDR3 and GDDR5 memory, the latter being twice as fast.

Radeon HD 5500

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A low-profile HD 5570 card

The Radeon HD 5570 was released on February 9, 2010, using the Redwood XT GPU as seen in the 5600 series. At first release was limited to DDR3 memory, but later, ATI added support for GDDR5 memory. One more variant, with only 320 stream cores, is available and Radeon HD 5550 was suggested as the product name. 5570s and 5550s were available with GDDR5, GDDR3 and DDR2 memory. The 5550 variant disabled one shader engine, so had only 320 stream processors (4 engines, 80 VLIW-5 units each).

All reference board designs of the Radeon HD 5500 series are half-height, making them suitable for a low profile form factor chassis.

Radeon HD 5400

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A Radeon HD 5450 by Sapphire Technology

Codenamed Cedar,[27] the Radeon HD 5400 series was announced on February 4, 2010, starting with the HD 5450. The Radeon HD 5450 has 80 stream cores, a core clock of 650 MHz, and 800 MHz DDR2 or DDR3 memory. The 5400 series is designed to assume a low-profile card size.

Mobile products

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Graphics device drivers

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AMD's proprietary graphics device driver "Catalyst"

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AMD Catalyst is being developed for Microsoft Windows and Linux. As of July 2014, other operating systems 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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The free and open-source drivers are primarily developed on Linux and for Linux, but have been ported to other operating systems as well. On HD5000, the driver using following six parts:

  1. Linux kernel component DRM
  2. Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display controller in kernel, called "radeon".
  3. user-space component libDRM: basically one of 3d drivers. The HD5000 series are using the "r600g" driver.
  4. user-space component in Mesa 3D;
  5. a special and distinct 2D graphics device driver for X.Org Server; with this card, EXA is used instead of Glamor

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs.[28]

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.[29]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "AMD Catalyst Software Suite Version 12.4 Release Notes". 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ^ "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  3. ^ "AMD Radeon Software Support for Legacy Graphics Products". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  4. ^ "AMD is driving graphics to the edge with Eyefinity powering the SimCraft APEX sc830". SimCraft insider. 2009-09-11.
  5. ^ ATI Radeon HD 5970 Press Release
  6. ^ "O 5800, 5800, Wherefor Art Thou 5800?". [H]ArdOCP. 2009-11-10.
  7. ^ DirectX 11 in the Open: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review Archived 2009-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Unified Video Decoder#UVD-enabled GPUs
  9. ^ "The Khronos Group". 10 July 2022.
  10. ^ "AMD Radeon HD 6900 (AMD Cayman) series graphics cards". HWlab. hw-lab.com. December 19, 2010. Archived from the original on August 23, 2022. Retrieved August 23, 2022. New VLIW4 architecture of stream processors allowed to save area of each SIMD by 10%, while performing the same compared to previous VLIW5 architecture
  11. ^ "GPU Specs Database". TechPowerUp. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  12. ^ "NPOT Texture (OpenGL Wiki)". Khronos Group. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  13. ^ "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  14. ^ "Mesamatrix". mesamatrix.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  15. ^ "RadeonFeature". X.Org Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  16. ^ "AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  17. ^ "AMD Launches The Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 RDNA3 GPUs". Phoronix. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  18. ^ "AMD Radeon Pro 5600M Grafikkarte". TopCPU.net (in German). Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  19. ^ a b c Killian, Zak (March 22, 2017). "AMD publishes patches for Vega support on Linux". Tech Report. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  20. ^ Larabel, Michael (September 15, 2020). "AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding". Phoronix. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  21. ^ Edmonds, Rich (February 4, 2022). "ASUS Dual RX 6600 GPU review: Rock-solid 1080p gaming with impressive thermals". Windows Central. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  22. ^ "Radeon's next-generation Vega architecture" (PDF). Radeon Technologies Group (AMD). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  23. ^ "AMDGPU". Retrieved December 29, 2023.
  24. ^ Angelini, Chris; Abi-Chahla, Fedy (September 23, 2009). "ATI Radeon HD 5870: DirectX 11, Eyefinity, And Serious Speed". Tom's Hardware. Bestofmedia Network. p. 8. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
  25. ^ Dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 released
  26. ^ http://www.techspot.com/review/283-geforce-gtx-400-vs-radeon-hd-5800/GTX 480 and GTX 470 Review
  27. ^ "AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 Codename Decoder". AMD. 2009-10-11.
  28. ^ "RadeonFeature". Xorg.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
  29. ^ "AMD Developer Guideds". Archived from the original on 2013-07-16.
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Laptop products

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