Radeon HD 7000 series
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Not to be confused with the Radeon RX 7000 series, a newer series of GPUs developed by AMD.
The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD,[9] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.[10]
Quick Facts Release date, Codename ...
Release date | January 9, 2012; 12 years ago (January 9, 2012) |
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Codename | Southern Islands London Trinity Sea Islands |
Architecture | TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3 GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen |
Transistors |
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Cards | |
Entry-level | 73xx - 76xx |
Mid-range | 7750 7770 7790 7850 |
High-end | 7870 7870 XT 7950 7970 |
Enthusiast | 7990 |
API support | |
DirectX |
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OpenCL | OpenCL 2.1 (GCN version) |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5[2][3][4][5][6] OpenGL 4.6 (GCN only, Win 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+, Linux Mesa: WIP) [7] |
Vulkan |
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History | |
Predecessor | Radeon HD 6000 series |
Variant | Radeon HD 8000 series |
Successor | Radeon R5/R7/R9 200 series |
Support status | |
Unsupported |
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The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.[11]