

ĪMD TrueAudio was introduced with the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series, but can only be found on the dies of GCN 2/3 products.ĪMD'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.ĭuring 2014 the Radeon R9 200 series GPUs offered a very competitive price for usage in cryptocurrency mining. These are implemented by emulation on some TeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs. OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders.TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) (Northern Islands or Evergreen) is found on R5 235X and below branded products.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.Graphics Core Next 3 (Volcanic Islands) is found on the R9 285 (Tonga Pro) branded products.Non-disclosure agreements were lifted on October 15, except for the R9 290X, and pre-orders opened on October 3. The Rx 200 series was announced on September 25, 2013, at the AMD GPU14 Tech Day event. These GPUs are manufactured on a 28 nm Gate-Last process through TSMC or Common Platform Alliance. The Radeon 200 series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD.
