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Features of AMD Radeon GPUs

	R100	R200	R300	R400	R500	R600	RV670	R700	Evergreen	Northern Islands	Southern Islands	Sea Islands	Volcanic Islands	Arctic Islands/Polaris
Released	Apr 2000	Aug 2001	Oct 2002	May 2004	Oct 2005	May 2006	Nov 2007	Jun 2008	Sep 2009	Oct 2010	Jan 2012	Sep 2013	Jun 2015	2016-Q2/Q3
Instruction set	not publicly known					TeraScale instruction set					GCN instruction set
Microarchitecture						TeraScale 1 (VLIW5)			TeraScale 2 (VLIW5)	TeraScale 3 (VLIW4)	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.1	GCN 1.2	Polaris
Microarchitecture type	Fixed pipeline					Unified shader model
Direct3D	7.0	8.1	9.0	9.0b	9.0c	10.0	10.1		11.0		12.0			12.1
Shader Model	1.1	1.4	2.0+	2.b	3.0	4.0	4.1		5.0
OpenGL	1.3		2.0			3.3			4.4		4.5
Vulkan	N/A										1.0
OpenCL	N/A							1.1	1.2		2.0
Power saving	?					PowerPlay				PowerTune	PowerTune & ZeroCore Power			TBA
Unified Video Decoder	N/A					Avivo/UVD	UVD+	UVD 2	UVD 2.2	UVD 3	UVD 4	UVD 4.2	UVD 5.0 or 6.0	TBA
Video Coding Engine	N/A										VCE 1.0	VCE 2.0	VCE 3.0	TBA
TrueAudio	N/A											✔		TBA
FreeSync	N/A											✔		TBA
Max. displays1	1–2	2							2–6					TBA
Max. resolution	?								2–6x 2560×1600		2–6x 4096×2160 @ 60 Hz			TBA
/drm/radeon	✔												N/A
/drm/amd/amdgpu	N/A										WIP	experimental	✔	TBA

• ¹ More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.

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