This led to limited supply and huge price increases of up to 164% over the MSRP in Q4 of 2013 and Q1 of 2014.
#Radeon hd 7790 opengl 4.4 series
Use in cryptocurrency miningĭuring 2014 the Radeon R9 200 series GPUs offered a very competitive price for usage in cryptocurrency mining. Video accelerationĪMD'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. AMD TrueAudioĪMD TrueAudio was introduced with the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series, but can only be found on the dies of GCN 2/3 products. 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. These are implemented by emulation on some TeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs. OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders.A GPU implementing TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) (Northern Islands or Evergreen) is found on R5 235X and "below" 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 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 3 (Volcanic Islands) is found on the R9 285 (Tonga Pro) branded products.This article is about all products under the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series brand.
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. Vulkan 1.2 (GCN 2nd gen and newer), Vulkan 1.0 (GCN 1st gen), or none (TeraScale) Direct3D 12.0 ( feature level 12_0) (GCN version).