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AMD Radeon R9/R7/R5 200 Series
AMD Radeon graphics logo
Release dateAnnounced: September 25, 2013
Released: October 8, 2013
CodenameSouthern Islands
Sea Islands
Volcanic Islands
Cards
Entry-levelRadeon R5 210
Radeon R5 220
Radeon R5 230
Radeon R5 235
Radeon R5 235X
Mid-rangeRadeon R7 240
Radeon R7 250
Radeon R7 250X
Radeon R7 260
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R7 265
High-endRadeon R9 270
Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R9 280X
Radeon R9 285
EnthusiastRadeon R9 290
Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R9 295X2
API support
DirectX (GCN only)
OpenCLOpenCL 2.0
OpenGL4.4, GCN: OpenGL 4.5[1]
MantleVulkan 1.0
History
PredecessorRadeon HD 7000 Series
Radeon HD 8000 Series
SuccessorAMD 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

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

AMD TrueAudio was introduced with the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series, but can only be found on the dies of GCN 2/3 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

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

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 3 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

Chipset table

Model
(codename)
Release Date
& Price
Architecture
Fab
Transistors
& Die Size
Core Fillrate[a][b][c] Processing power[a][d]
(GFLOPS)
Memory TBP Bus interface
Config[e] Clock[a] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Single Double Size (MiB) Bus type
& width
Clock (MT/s) Band-
width (GB/s)
Radeon
R5 220[20]
(Caicos Pro)
December 21, 2013
OEM
Terascale 2[f]
40 nm
370×106
67 mm2
80:8:4 625
650
5 2.5 200 1024 DDR3
64-bit
1066 8.53 18 W PCIe 2.1 ×16
Radeon
R5 230[21]
(Caicos Pro)
April 3, 2014[22]
?
160:8:4 625 5 2.5 200 1024
2048
DDR3
64-bit
1066 8.53 19 W[23]
Radeon
R5 235[20]
(Caicos XT)
December 21, 2013
OEM
160:8:4 775 6.2 3.1 248 1024 DDR3
64-bit
1800 14.4 35 W[24]
Radeon
R5 235X[20]
(Caicos XT)
December 21, 2013
OEM
160:8:4 875 7.0 3.5 280 1024 DDR3
64-bit
1800 14.4 18 W
Radeon
R5 240[20]
(Oland)
November 1, 2013[25]
OEM
GCN 1st gen
28 nm
1040×106
90 mm2
384:24:8 730
780
14.6 5.84 560.6
599
29.2 1024
2048
DDR3
GDDR3
64-bit
1800
2000

14.4
16.0

30 W PCIe 3.0 ×8
Radeon
R7 240[26]
(Oland Pro)
August 8, 2013
US $69
320:20:8 730
780
14.6 5.84 467.2
499.2
29.2 2048
4096
DDR3
GDDR5
128-bit
1800
4500

28.8
72

30 W, <45 W (4 GB)[27]
Radeon
R7 250[26]
(Oland XT)
August 8, 2013
US $89
384:24:8 1000
(1050)
24 8 768
806.4
48 1024
2048
DDR3
GDDR5
128-bit
1800
4600

28.8
73.6

75 W
Radeon
R7 250E[28]
(Cape Verde Pro)
December 21, 2013
US $109
1500×106
123 mm2
512:32:16 800 25.6 12.8 819.2 51.2 1024
2048
GDDR5
128-bit
4500 72 55 W PCIe 3.0 ×16
Radeon
R7 250X[26]
(Cape Verde XT)
February 10, 2014
US $99
640:40:16 1000 40 16 1280 80 1024
2048
GDDR5
128-bit
4500 72 95 W
Radeon
R7 260[26]
(Bonaire)
December 17, 2013
US $109
GCN 2nd gen
28 nm
2080×106
160 mm2
768:48:16 1000 48 16 1536 96 1024 GDDR5
128-bit
6000 96 95 W
Radeon
R7 260X[26]
(Bonaire XTX)
August 8, 2013
US $139
896:56:16 1100 61.6 17.6 1971.2 123.2 1024
2048
GDDR5
128-bit
6500 104 115 W
Radeon
R7 265[26]
(Pitcairn Pro)
February 13, 2014
US $149
GCN 1st gen
28 nm
2800×106
212 mm2
1024:64:32 900
925
57.6 28.8 1843.2 115.2 2048 GDDR5
256-bit
5600 179.2 150 W
Radeon
R9 270[29]
(Pitcairn XT)
November 13, 2013
US $179
1280:80:32 900
925
72 28.8 2304
2368
144
148
2048 GDDR5
256-bit
5600 179.2 150 W
Radeon
R9 270X[29]
(Pitcairn XT)
August 8, 2013
US $199
1280:80:32 1000
1050
80 32 2560
2688
160
168
2048
4096
GDDR5
256-bit
5600 179.2 180 W
Radeon
R9 280[29]
(Tahiti Pro)
March 4, 2014
US $249
4313×106
352 mm2
1792:112:32 827
933
92.6 26.5 2964
3343.9
741
836
3072 GDDR5
384-bit
5000 240 250 W
Radeon
R9 280X[29]
(Tahiti XTL)[30]
August 8, 2013
US $299
2048:128:32 850
1000
109–128 27.2–32 3481.6
4096
870.4
1024
3072 GDDR5
384-bit
6000 288 250 W
Radeon
R9 285[29]
(Tonga Pro)
September 2, 2014
US $249
GCN 3rd gen
28 nm
5000×106
359 mm2 [31]
1792:112:32 918 102.8 29.4 3290 206.6[32] 2048 GDDR5
256-bit
5500 176[g] 190 W
Radeon
R9 285X
(Tonga XT)
Unreleased [34] 2048:128:32 1002 128.3 32.1 4104 256.5 3072 GDDR5
384-bit
5500 264 200 W
Radeon
R9 290[29]
(Hawaii Pro)
November 5, 2013
US $399
GCN 2nd gen
28 nm
6200×106
438 mm2 [35]
2560:160:64 up to 947[h] 151.52 60.608 4848.6 606.1 4096 GDDR5
512-bit
5000 320 250 W[37]
Radeon
R9 290X[29]
(Hawaii XT)
October 24, 2013
November 6, 2014[38]
US $549
2816:176:64 1000[h] 176 64 5632 704 4096
8192
GDDR5
512-bit
5000 320 250 W[37]
Radeon
R9 295X2[29][39]
(Vesuvius)
April 8, 2014
US $1499
6200×106
2× 438 mm2
2× 2816:176:64 1018 358.33 130.3 11466.75 1433.34 2× 4096 GDDR5
512-bit
5000 2× 320 500 W
Model
(codename)
Release Date
& Price
Architecture
Fab
Transistors
& Die Size
Config[e] Clock[a] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Single Double Size (MiB) Bus type
& width
Clock (MT/s) Band-
width (GB/s)
TBP Bus interface
Core Fillrate[a][b][c] Processing power[a][d]
(GFLOPS)
Memory
  1. ^ a b c d e f Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. ^ a b Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. ^ a b Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. ^ a b Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. ^ a b Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units
  6. ^ Lacks hardware video encoder
  7. ^ The R9 285 utilizes loss-less colour compression which can increase effective memory performance (relative to GCN 1st gen and 2nd gen cards) in certain situations.[31][33]
  8. ^ a b Base clock of R9 290 and R9 290X will maintain at 947 MHz and 1000 MHz before reaching 95 °C, respectively.[36]


Model
(Codename)
Launch Architecture
(Fab)
Core Fillrate[a][b][c] Processing power[a][d]
(GFLOPS)
Memory TDP
Config[e] Clock[a] (MHz) Texture (GT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Size (GiB) Bus type
& width
Clock (MT/s) Band-
width (GB/s)
Radeon
R5 M230
(Jet Pro)
January 2014 GCN 1st gen
(28 nm)
320:20:8:5 780
855
3.4 17.1 547 2
4
DDR3
64-bit
2000 16 Un­known
Radeon
R5 M255
(Jet Pro)
June 2014 320:20:8:5 925
940
7.5 18.8 601 2
4
DDR3
64-bit
2000 16 Un­known
Radeon
R7 M260
(Topaz)
June 2014 384:24:8:6 620
980
5.7
7.8
17.2
23.5
549.1
752.6
2
4
DDR3
64-bit
1800
2000
14.4
16
Un­known
Radeon
R7 M260X
(Opal)
June 2014 384:24:8:6 620
715
5.7 17.2 549 2
4
GDDR5
128-bit
4000 64 Un­known
Radeon
R7 M265
(Opal XT)
May 2014 384:24:8:6 725
825
6.6 19.8 633.6 2
4
DDR3
64-bit
1800
2000
14.4
16
Un­known
Radeon
R9 M265X
(Venus Pro)
May 2014 640:40:16:10 575
625
10 25 800 2
4
GDDR5
128-bit
4500 72 Un­known
Radeon
R9 M270X
(Venus XT)
May 2014 640:40:16:10 725
775
12.4 31 992 2
4
GDDR5
128-bit
4500 72 Un­known
Radeon
R9 M275X
(Venus XTX)
May 2014 640:40:16:10 900
925
14.8 37 1184 2
4
GDDR5
128-bit
4500 72 50 W
Radeon
R9 M280X
(Saturn XT)
February 2015 GCN 2nd gen
(28 nm)
896:56:16:14 1000
1100
17.6 61.6 1792 2
4
GDDR5
128-bit
6000 96 ~75 W
Radeon
R9 M290X
(Neptune XT)
May 2014 GCN 1st gen
(28 nm)
1280:80:32:20 850
900
28.8 72 2176
2304
4 GDDR5
256-bit
4800 153.6 100 W
Radeon
R9 M295X
(Amethyst XT)
November 2014 GCN 3rd gen
(28 nm)
2048:128:32:32 750
800
25.6 102.4 3276.8 4 GDDR5
256-bit
5500 176 250 W
  1. ^ a b c Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. ^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. ^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. ^ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. ^ Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units

Graphics device drivers

AMD's proprietary graphics device driver "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"

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.[40] Unlike the nouveau project for Nvidia graphics cards, the open-source "Radeon" drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.[41]

See also

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