Radeon HD 8000 series

AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series (OEM)

Release date	2013
Codename	Southern Islands Sea Islands Solar System Richland Kabini
Fabrication process and transistors	1,040M (Oland) 28 nm 2,080M (Bonaire) 28 nm
Cards
Entry-level	8350 8450 8470 8570 8670 8730
Mid-range	8750 8760 8770 8850
High-end	8870 8950 8970
Enthusiast	8990
Rendering support
Direct3D	Direct3D 11.2 and Direct3D 12 Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.4[1]
History
Predecessor	Radeon HD 7000 Series
Successor	Radeon Rx 200 Series

The HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD. AMD was initially rumoured to release the family in the second quarter of 2013,^[2][3][4] with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture.^[5] However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although, Oland is of newer development).

Architecture

This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 8000 Series brand. These series marked AMD shift from VLIW architectures (TeraScale (microarchitecture)) to RISC/SIMD ones (called Graphics Core Next). The transition wasn't complete, so while the newer more powerful cards were equipped with GCN cores, the less powerful ones were left with older TeraScale2/3 cores. The variations are described in the tables below. GCN desktop cards were code-named Southern Islands, while mobile ones were code-named Solar System.

Multi-monitor support

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.^[6]

Video acceleration

Both Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) are present on the dies of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.

Chipset table

GCN-based models

• Graphics Core Next (GCN) supports the Mantle API and Vulcan API

Southern Islands (HD 8xxx) Series

Model	Launch	Code name	Architecture	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm^2)	Bus interface	Clock rate			Config core	Fillrate		Memory				Processing Power GFLOPS		TDP (W)		API support (version)			Release Price (USD)
								Core (MHz)	Boost (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)	Single Precision	Double Precision	Idle	Max.	DirectX	OpenGL	OpenCL
Radeon HD 8570	2013	Oland	GCN 1.0	28	1040	90	PCIe 3.0 ×8	730		900 1150	384:24:8	6.4	19.2	2048	22.8 72	DDR3 GDDR5	128	560	35	12	66	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2[7]	OEM
Radeon HD 8670	2013	Oland	GCN 1.0	28	1040	90	PCIe 3.0 ×8	1000		1150	384:24:8	8	24	2048	72	GDDR5	128	768	48	16	86	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8760 (OEM)	2013	Cape Verde XT	GCN 1.0	28	1500	123	PCIe 3.0 ×16	1000		1125	640:40:16	16	40	2048	72	GDDR5	128	1280	80	16	80	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8770	2013	Bonaire XT	GCN 1.1	28	2080	160	PCIe 3.0 ×16	1000		1500	896:56:16	16.0	56.0	2048	96	GDDR5	128	1792	128	10	85	12.0 (12_0)	4.4	2.1	?
Radeon HD 8860 (OEM)	2013	Pitcairn XT	GCN 1.0	28	2800	212	PCIe 3.0 x16	1000		1200	1280:80:32	32	80	2048	153.6	GDDR5	256	2560	160	15	150	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8950 (OEM)	2013	Tahiti Pro	GCN 1.0	28	4313	352	PCIe 3.0 x16	850	925	1250	1792:112:32	27.2 29.6	95.2 103.6	3072	240	GDDR5	384	3046.4 3315.2	761.6 828.8	15	225+	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8970 (OEM)	2013	Tahiti XT2	GCN 1.0	28	4313	352	PCIe 3.0 x16	1000	1050	1500	2048:128:32	32 33.6	128.0 134.4	3072	288	GDDR5	384	4096 4300	1024 1075	15	250+	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8990 (OEM)	2013	Malta	GCN 1.0	28	4313 x2	352 x2	PCIe 3.0 ×16	950	1000	1500	2048:128:32 x2	32 x2	128 x2	3072 x2	288 x2	GDDR5	384 x2	8200	1894	15	375	12.0 (11_1)	4.4	1.2	OEM
Model	Launch	Code name	Architecture	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm^2)	Bus interface	Core (MHz)	Boost (MHz)	Memory (MHz)	Config core	Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)	Single Precision	Double Precision	Idle	Max.	DirectX	OpenGL	OpenCL	Release Price (USD)
								Clock rate				Fillrate		Memory				Processing Power GFLOPS		TDP (W)		API support (version)

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5 is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as with other DDR memory.
³ The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.

Solar System (HD 8xxxM) series

• All models are based on GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture.^[8]
• HD 87xx–89xx models support DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.2 and OpenCL 1.2
• All models will now feature 256 kB or 512 kB L2 read/write cache^[9]

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm^2)	Bus interface	Clock rate		Config core^1	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP^3 (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)
							Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type^2	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.
Radeon HD 8550M	2013	Sun Pro	28	900	85	PCIe 3.0 ×16	650 Boost: 700	1000 1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024 2048	Unknown	DDR3 GDDR5	64	537	Unknown	Unknown	33
Radeon HD 8570M	2013	Sun XT	28	900	85	PCIe 3.0 ×8	650 Boost: 700	1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024	36	GDDR5	64	537	Unknown	Unknown	33
Radeon HD 8590M	2013	Sun XTX	28	900	85	PCIe 3.0 ×8	620 Boost: 700	1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024	36	GDDR5	64	537	Unknown	Unknown	33
Radeon HD 8670M	2013	Mars XT	28	900	85	PCIe 3.0 ×8	775 Boost: 825	1000	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024	36	DDR3	64	633	Unknown	Unknown	39
Radeon HD 8690M	2013	Mars XTX	28	900	85	PCIe 3.0 ×8	775 Boost: 825	1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024	36	GDDR5	64	633	Unknown	Unknown	39
Radeon HD 8730M	2013	Mars LP	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×8	650 Boost: 700	1000	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024 2048	32	DDR3	128	537	Unknown	Unknown	33
Radeon HD 8750M	2013	Mars PRO	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×8	620 – 775 Boost: 670 – 825	1000	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024 2048	28.8 64	DDR3 GDDR5	128	537 - 633	Unknown	Unknown	33-39
Radeon HD 8770M	2013	Mars XT	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×8	775 Boost: 825	1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024 2048	72	GDDR5	128	633 - 691	Unknown	Unknown	39-42
Radeon HD 8790M	2013	Mars XTX	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×8	850 Boost: 900	1000 1125	384:24:8	Unknown	Unknown	1024 2048	72	GDDR5	128	691	Unknown	Unknown	43
Radeon HD 8830M	2013	Venus LE	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×16	575 Boost: 625	1000	640:40:16	11.2 12.4	28.0 31.0	2048	32	DDR3 GDDR5	128	800	Unknown	Unknown	50
Radeon HD 8850M	2013	Venus PRO	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×16	575 – 725 Boost: 625 – 775	1000 1125	640:40:16	11.2 12.4	28.0 31.0	2048	32 72	DDR3 GDDR5	128	800 992	Unknown	Unknown	62
Radeon HD 8870M	2013	Venus XT	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×16	725 Boost: 775	1000 1125	640:40:16	11.2 12.4	28.0 31.0	2048	32 72	DDR3 GDDR5	128	992	Unknown	Unknown	62
Radeon HD 8890M	2013	Venus XTX	28	2080	?	PCIe 3.0 ×16	850 Boost: 900	1125	896:56:16	14.4	Unknown	2048	72	GDDR5	128	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Radeon HD 8930M	2013	Saturn PRO	28	2800	212	PCIe 3.0 ×16	Unknown	Unknown	?	Unknown	Unknown	2048	Unknown	GDDR5	256	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Radeon HD 8950M	2013	Saturn XT	28	2800	212	PCIe 3.0 ×16	1075	1375	768:?:?	Unknown	Unknown	2048	Unknown	GDDR5	256	Unknown	75	100	Yes
Radeon HD 8970M	2013	Neptune XT	28	2800	212	PCIe 3.0 ×16	850 Boost: 900	1200	1280:80:32	Unknown	Unknown	4096	154	GDDR5	256	2304	75	100	144
Radeon HD 8990M	2013	Neptune XTX	28	?	?	PCIe 3.0 ×16	Unknown	Unknown	1536:96:32	Unknown	Unknown	4096	Unknown	GDDR5	256	Unknown	75	100	Yes
Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm^2)	Bus interface	Clock rate		Config core^1	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP^3 (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)
							Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type^2	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.

VLIW5-based models

Evergreen series^[10]

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Clock rate		Config core	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)	Notes
				Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.
Radeon HD 8350 (OEM)	2013	Cedar	40	400 to 650	400 800	PCIe 2.1 ×16	1.6 - 2.6	400 - 650	Unknown	6.4 12.8	DDR2 DDR3	Unknown	104	6.4 12.8	DDR2 DDR3	64	104	No	6.4	19.1	5.45	11.0	4.3	1.2	OEM

Northern Islands series

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Clock rate		Config core	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)	Notes
				Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.
Radeon HD 8450 (OEM)	2013	Caicos	40	370	67	PCIe 2.1 ×16	0512	625		533	160:8:4	2.5	5.0	8.53	DDR3	64	200	No	9	18	8	11.0	4.3	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8470 (OEM)	2013	Caicos	40	370	67	PCIe 2.1 ×16	1024	750		800	160:8:4	3.0	6.0	25.6	GDDR5	64	240	No	9	35	8	11.0	4.3	1.2	OEM
Radeon HD 8490 (OEM)	2013	Caicos	40	370	67	PCIe 2.1 ×16	1024	875		900	160:8:4	3.5	7.0	28.8	GDDR5	64	280	No	9	35	8	11.0	4.3	1.2	OEM

VLIW4-based models

Richland (HD 8xxxD) series

These refer to the graphics integrated into Richland desktop APUs, they are VLIW4 based (like some of Radeon HD 6000 Series).

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Clock rate		Config core	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)	Notes
				Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.
Radeon HD 8370D	19 March 2013	Scrapper	32	System	760	128:8:4	3.04	6.08	System	System	DDR3	128	194.6	Unknown	Unknown	33
Radeon HD 8470D	19 March 2013	Scrapper	32	System	800	192:12:4	3.20	9.60	System	System	DDR3	128	307.2	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Radeon HD 8570D	19 March 2013	Devastator	32	System	800 844	256:16:8	6.40	12.8	System	System	DDR3	128	432.1	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	used in A8-6500 (800 MHz) and A8-6600K (844 MHz) APUs
Radeon HD 8670D	19 March 2013	Devastator	32	System	844	384:24:8	6.75	20.3	System	System	DDR3	128	648.2	Unknown	Unknown	Yes	used in A10-6700 and A10-6800K APUs

Richland (HD 8xxxG) series

These refer to the graphics integrated into Richland mobile APUs, they are VLIW4 based.

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Clock rate		Config core^1	Fillrate		Memory				GFLOPS (Single-precision)	TDP^3 (W)		GFLOPS (Double-precision)
				Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type^2	Bus width (bit)		Idle	Max.
Radeon HD 8310G	May 2013	-	32	424 Boost: 554	System	128			System	System	DDR3	128		Unknown	Unknown
Radeon HD 8350G	19 March 2013	-	32	514 Boost: 720	System	128:8:4	2.06	4.11	System	System	DDR3	128	131.6 (184.3)	Unknown	Unknown	32.9
Radeon HD 8410G	May 2013	Scrapper	32	450 Boost: 600	System	192:24:4	1.80	10.80	System	System	DDR3	128	172.8 (230.4)	Unknown	Unknown
Radeon HD 8450G	23 May 2013	Scrapper	32	533 Boost: 720	1600	192:12:4	2.17	17.33	768(shared)	System	DDR3	128	204.7 (276.5)	Unknown	35W	Yes
Radeon HD 8510G	May 2013	Scrapper	32	450 Boost: 554	System	384:48:8	3.60	21.60	System	System	DDR3	128	351.9 (425.5)	Unknown	19W
Radeon HD 8550G	19 March 2013	Devastator	32	515 Boost: 720	System	256:16:8	4.12	8.24	System	System	DDR3	128	263.7 (368.6)	Unknown	Unknown	Yes
Radeon HD 8610G	May 2013	Devastator	32	533 Boost: 626	System	384			System	System	DDR3	128	409.3 (489.8)	Unknown	Unknown
Radeon HD 8650G	19 March 2013	Devastator	32	533 Boost: 720	System	384:24:8	4.26	12.8	System	System	DDR3	128	409.3 (553.0)	Unknown	Unknown	Yes

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 Rx 200 Series
• Nvidia GeForce 700 Series
• Free and open-source device drivers: graphics#ATI/AMD

References

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2. "AMD's 2012 - 2013 Client CPU/GPU/APU Roadmap Revealed". AnandTech. 2012-02-02. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
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10. "AMD Radeon™ HD 8350 GPU Feature Summary (OEM)" (PDF).

External links

• techPowerUp! GPU Database