Radeon HD 5000 series
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| Release date | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Codename | Evergreen Cedar, Redwood, Juniper, Cypress, Hemlock |
| Cards | |
| Entry-level | HD 5450 HD 5500 Series |
| Mid-range | HD 5670 HD 5700 Series |
| High-end | HD 5800 Series |
| Enthusiast | HD 5970 |
| API support | |
| DirectX | Direct3D 11 |
| OpenCL | 1.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.0 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Radeon HD 4000 series |
| Successor | Northern Islands family |
The Evergreen series is a family of GPUs developed by AMD graphics products division. The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as "R8xx". ATI held a press event in the USS Hornet museum on September 10, 2009[1] 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 5770 appearing October 12 and HD 5970 launched November 18 [2] and the HD 5670, which was launched on January 14, 2010, with further launches expected throughout 2010.
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.[3]
Architecture
Terascale 2 Architecture
With the release of Cypress, the Terascale graphics engine architecture has been upgraded with twice the number of stream cores, texture units and ROP units compared to the RV770. The architecture of stream cores is largely unchanged, but adds support for DirectX 11/DirectCompute 11 capabilities with new instructions.[4] Also similar to RV770, 4 texture units are tied to 16 stream cores (each have 5 processing elements, making a total of 80 processing elements). This combination of is referred to as a "SIMD core".
Unlike the predecessor, as DirectX 11 mandates full developer control over interpolation so dedicated interpolators were removed, relying instead on the SIMD cores. The stream cores can handle the higher rounding precision FMA (Fused Multiply Add) instruction in both single and double precision which increases precision over MAD (Multiply Add) and is compliant to IEEE 754-2008 standard.[5] The instruction SAD (Sum of Absolute Difference) has been natively added to the processors. This instruction can be used to greatly improve the performance of some processes, such as video encoding & transcoding. Each SIMD core is equipped with 32 kiB "Local Data Share" and 8 kiB of L1 cache,[4] while all SIMD cores share 64 kiB "Global Data Share".
Memory controller
Each memory controller ties to 2 quad ROP units, one per 32-bit channel, and dedicated 128 kiB L2 cache.[4] Redwood has 1 quad ROP per 64-bit channel.
Multi-display technologies
AMD also introduced a new multi-display technology in this GPU family, dubbed "ATI Eyefinity Technology", supporting up to 6 simultaneous display being connected to one graphics cards, and supports grouping of multiple monitors into a "single large surface" (SLS), treated by the OS as a single monitor with very high resolutions, as an inexpensive alternative for ultra-high resolution display solution.
The entire HD 5000 series products have Eyefinity capabilities, supporting up to 3 outputs (except for Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition). The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition card will have six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.[6]
The display unit on Evergreen family of GPUs was completely replaced with one that has two DACs which are used to drive the DVI ports in analog mode (for example, when a DVI to VGA converter attached to a DVI port), a maximum of six digital transmitters that can output either a DisplayPort signal or a TMDS signal which is used for either DVI or HDMI, and two clock signal generators needed to drive the digital outputs in TMDS mode. Dual-link DVI displays use two of the two TMDS/DisplayPort transmitters and one clock signal each. Single-link DVI displays and HDMI displays use one TMDS/DisplayPort transmitter and one clock signal each. DisplayPort displays use one TMDS/DisplayPort transmitter and no clock signal.
A DisplayPort adapter or dongle can be used to convert a DisplayPort signal to another type of signal like VGA, single or dual link DVI, or HDMI if more than two non-DisplayPort displays need to be connected to a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card.[6] The table below shows the maximum possible configurations on a normal Radeon HD 5800/5700 series add in card.
| DVI-I/VGA | DVI-I | HDMI | DisplayPort | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option 1 | Active | Active | Inactive | Active |
| Option 2 | Active | Inactive | Active | Active |
However, other configurations are possible while not being explicitly detailed or verified by ATI (eg. DVI + HDMI + VGA).[7]
Multimedia capabilities
On video capabilities, the AVIVO HD plus UVD combination is still responsible for hardware decoding for the video codecs for Blu-ray movies playback on the Evergreen family, with a few enhancements on AVIVO HD such as blue stretch for brighter white. With Catalyst 9.11 and beyond and Flash 10.1 UVD can be used to accelerate H.264 based flash videos, such as YouTube and Hulu. Display pipeline supports xvYCC gamut and 12-bit per component output via HDMI. AVIVO HD also supports DXVA 2.0 API for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
One major milestone is that the Evergreen GPU family supports HDMI 1.3a output. The previous generation R700 family GPUs 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,[4] and HDMI output is capable of 12-bit per component output.
Products
Radeon HD 5900
Codenamed Hemlock, the Radeon HD 5900 series was announced on October 12, 2009, starting with the HD 5970.[8] 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, making it the only series to have two GPUs on one PCB for Evergreen GPU family. There have been rumors of other products in the HD 5900 series, such as the 5950, although these are unconfirmed by AMD.
Radeon HD 5800
Codenamed Cypress, the Radeon HD 5800 series was announced on September 23, 2009. Products included Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870; an Eyefinity version of Radeon HD 5870 will also be available with 6 mini DisplayPort outputs. The launching model of Radeon HD 5870 can only support 3 display outputs at most. The Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 usable stream cores, while the Radeon HD 5850 has 1440 usable stream cores, as 160 out of the 1600 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.[9] The Radeon HD 5830 has 1120 usable stream cores and a standard core clock of 800MHz.
An Eyefinity edition card for Radeon HD 5870, with 2 GB GDDR5 memory and supporting 6 simultaneous displays to be connected to the mini DisplayPort outputs, was announced by AMD but was yet to be released, an engineering sample of such card was put on eBay for auction.
Radeon HD 5700
Codenamed Juniper, the Radeon HD 5700 series was announced on October 13, 2009. Products included Radeon HD 5750 and Radeon HD 5770. All Radeon HD 5700 series can support up to 6 display outputs [10] although most ship with fewer ports. The Radeon HD 5770 has 800 stream cores, while the Radeon HD 5750 has 720 stream cores, as a result of product binning. The 5770 series has a 128-bit bus width, as opposed to the 5800 series, which has a 256-bit bus width.
Radeon HD 5600
File:Zdnet-ati-radeon-hd-5670.jpg Codename Redwood, the Radeon HD 5670 was released on January 14, 2010 with the launch of the Radeon HD 5670. The Radeon HD 5670 has 400 stream cores and a core clock of 775 MHz with 1000 MHz (4.0Gbps) GDDR5 memory.
Radeon HD 5500
Codenamed Redwood, the Radeon HD 5570 was released on February 9, 2010. It uses the same GPU as the Radeon HD 5670, but it's limited to DDR3 memory and lower core frequency. One more variant, with only 320 stream cores, is available and Radeon HD 5550 was suggested as the product name.
All reference board designs of the Radeon HD 5500 series are half-height, making them suitable for small form factor chassis.
Radeon HD 5400
Codename Cedar,[11] 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.
Chipset table
See also
References
- ^ "AMD is driving graphics to the edge with Eyefinity powering the SimCraft APEX sc830". SimCraft insider. 2009-09-11.
- ^ ATI Radeon HD 5970 Press Release
- ^ "O 5800, 5800, Wherefor Art Thou 5800?". [H]ArdOCP. 2009-11-10.
- ^ a b c d DirectX 11 in the Open: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review
- ^ Report: AMD Radeon HD 5870 and 5850
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ HardOCP report
- ^ Dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 released
- ^ ATI Radeon HD 5830 out now
- ^ http://techreport.com/articles.x/17747
- ^ "AMD Decoder". AMD. 2009-10-11.