The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD. AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture.AMD Reiterates 2013 GPU Plans: Sea Islands & Beyond - Anandtech, 15 Feb 2013 However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of newer development).

Architecture The Radeon HD 7000 series was launched in 2011 and it marked AMD's shift from VLIW (TeraScale) to RISC/SIMD architecture (Graphics Core Next). The highend-mainstream cards were equipped with GCN-based chips while some of the mid-low end ones were just rebranded TeraScale-based cards. All of the GCN-based chips were made using the 28 nm process, becoming the first chips ever to be based on that technology. The GCN-based chips for desktop cards were codenamed as Southern Islands, while the mobile ones (again, only the GCN-based and not the rebranded ones) were codenamed as Solar System.

Multi-monitor support

The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 alongside the Radeon HD 5000 series and have been present on all chips since then.

Video acceleration Both Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) are present on all GCN-based chips (starting with the GCN 1.0 HD 7000 series). Both are fully supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.

OpenCL (API) OpenCL accelerates many scientific Software Packages against CPU up to factor 10 or 100 and more. OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all Chips with TeraScale and GCN Architecture. OpenCL 2.0 is supported with GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher) For OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 only Driver Updates are necessary with OpenCL 2.0 conformant Cards.

Vulkan (API) API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all with GCN Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 (GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher) will be supported with actual drivers in 2018 (here only HD 8770). On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on Windows and Linux is supported on all GCN-architecture based GPUs. Vulkan 1.2 is available with Adrenalin 20.1 and Linux Mesa 20.0 for GCN 2nd Gen. or higher.

Chipset table

Desktop models Graphics Core Next (GCN) supports the Mantle API and Vulkan API OpenGL 4.5 support for TeraScale 2 with AMD Crimson Beta (driver version 15.30 or higher) OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan 1.0 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Crimson 16.3 or higher.AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3amd.com Vulkan 1.1 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Adrenalin 18.3.3 or higher.

Mobile Models

Integrated Models Model(Codename) Launch Architecture(Fab)APU Core config Clock rate FillrateMemory Processing Power(GFLOPS) TDP Core(MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel(GP/s) Texture(GT/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Single(boost) Double(boost) RadeonHD 8370D(Scrapper) 19 March 2013 TeraScale 332 nm A4-6300 128:8:4 760 System 3.04 6.08 DDR3 128 194.6 33 RadeonHD 8470D(Scrapper) 19 March 2013 A6-6400 192:12:4 800 System 3.20 9.60 DDR3 128 307.2 RadeonHD 8570D(Devastator) 19 March 2013 A8-6500A8-6600K 256:16:8 800844 System 6.40 12.8 DDR3 128 432.1 RadeonHD 8670D(Devastator) 19 March 2013 A10-6700A10-6800K 384:24:8 844 System 6.75 20.3 DDR3 128 648.2 RadeonHD 8310G TeraScale 332 nm A4-5145M 128:8:4 424(554) System DDR3L 128 RadeonHD 8350G 19 March 2013 A4-5150M 128:8:4 514(720) System 2.06 4.11 DDR3L 128 131.6 (184.3) 32.9 RadeonHD 8410G(Scrapper) May 2013 A6-5345M 192:24:4 450(600) System 1.80 10.80 DDR3L 128 172.8 (230.4) RadeonHD 8450G(Scrapper) 23 May 2013 A6-535xM 192:12:4 533(720) 1600 2.17 17.33 DDR3L 128 204.7 (276.5) 35W RadeonHD 8510G(Scrapper) May 2013 A8-5545M 384:48:8 450(554) System 3.60 21.60 DDR3L 128 351.9 (425.5) 19W RadeonHD 8550GDevastator 19 March 2013 A8-555xM 256:16:8 515(720) System 4.12 8.24 DDR3L 128 263.7 (368.6) RadeonHD 8610GDevastator May 2013 A10-5745M 384:24:8 533(626) System DDR3L 128 409.3 (489.8) RadeonHD 8650GDevastator 19 March 2013 A10-575xM 384:24:8 533(720) System 4.26 12.8 DDR3L 128 409.3 (553.0)

Radeon Feature Matrix

See also Radeon HD 2000 series Radeon HD 3000 series Radeon HD 4000 series Radeon HD 5000 series Radeon HD 6000 series Radeon HD 7000 series Radeon 200 series GeForce 700 series List of AMD graphics processing units Free and open-source device drivers: graphics#ATI/AMD

References

External links techPowerUp! GPU Database