Radeon HD 5000 Series

ATi Radeon HD 5000 Series

Release date	September 10, 2009
Codename	Evergreen Manhattan
Fabrication process and transistors	292M 40 nm (Cedar) 627M 40 nm (Redwood) 1,040M 40 nm (Juniper) 2,154M 40 nm (Cypress)
Cards
Entry-level	5450, 5550, 5570
Mid-range	5670, 5750, 5770
High-end	5830, 5850, 5870
Enthusiast	5970
Rendering support
Direct3D	Direct3D 11 Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.4[1]
History
Predecessor	Radeon HD 4000 Series
Successor	Radeon HD 6000 Series

The Evergreen series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices for its Radeon line under the ATI brand name. It was employed in Radeon HD 5000 graphics card series and competed directly with Nvidia's GeForce 400 Series.

Release

The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as "R8xx". AMD held a press event in the USS Hornet museum on September 10, 2009^[2] 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 5700 series launching October 12 and HD 5970 launching on November 18^[3] The HD 5670, was launched on January 14, 2010, and the HD 5500 and 5400 series were launched in February 2010, completing what has appeared to be most of AMD's Evergreen GPU lineup.

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.^[4]

Architecture

This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 5000 Series brand. TeraScale 2 was introduced with this.

• A GPU implementing TeraScale 2 is found on Radeon HD 5830 and above branded products. These products have the capability to calculate double-precision floating-point format.
• A GPU implementing TeraScale 1 is found on Radeon HD 5770 and below branded products. These products have the capability to calculate only single-precision floating-point format.

Multi-monitor support

The on-die display controllers with the new brand name AMD Eyefinity were introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 Series. The entire HD 5000 series products have Eyefinity capabilities supporting three outputs. The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition, however, supports six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.

Display pipeline supports xvYCC gamut and 12-bit per component output via HDMI. HDMI 1.3a output. The previous generation Radeon R700 GPUs in the Radeon HD 4000 Series 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,^[5] and HDMI output is capable of 12-bit per component output.

Maximum output configurations for normal Radeon HD 5800/5700 series cards

	DVI-I/VGA	DVI-I/VGA	HDMI	DisplayPort
Option 1	Active	Active	Inactive	Active
Option 2	Active	Inactive	Active	Active

Video acceleration

Unified Video Decoder (UVD2.2)^[6] is present on the dies of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst 9.11 and later through DXVA 2.0 on Microsoft Windows and VDPAU on Linux and FreeBSD. The free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD also support UVD.

Desktop products

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm²)	Bus interface	Clock rate		Core config	Fillrate		Memory				Processing Power (GFLOPS)		TDP (W)		API support (version)			Release Price (USD)
							Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)		Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)	Single Precision	Double Precision	Idle	Max.	Direct3D	OpenGL	OpenCL
Radeon HD 5450	Feb 4, 2010	Cedar PRO	40	292	59	PCIe 2.1 x16 PCI-classic PCIe 2.1 x1	650 650 650	400 800 800	80:8:4	2.6	5.2	512 1024 2048	6.4 12.8	DDR2 DDR3	64	104	No	6.4	19.1	11.0	4.4	1.2	~50
Radeon HD 5550	Feb 9, 2010	Redwood LE	40	627	104	PCIe 2.1 x16	550 550 550	400 800 800	320:16:8	4.4	8.8	512 1024 2048	12.8 25.6 51.2	DDR2 GDDR3 GDDR5	128	352	No	10	39	11.0	4.4	1.2	~70
Radeon HD 5570	Feb 9, 2010	Redwood PRO	40	627	104	PCIe 2.1 x16	650 650	400 900	400:20:8	5.2	13.0	512 1024 2048	12.8 28.8 57.6	DDR2 GDDR3 GDDR5	128	520	No	10	39	11.0	4.4	1.2	80
Radeon HD 5610	May 14, 2011	Redwood PRO	40	627	104	PCIe 2.1 x16	650	500	400:20:8	5.2	13.0	1024	16.0	GDDR3	128	520			39	11.0	4.4	1.2
Radeon HD 5670	Jan 14, 2010	Redwood XT	40	627	104	PCIe 2.1 x16	775 775	800 1000	400:20:8	6.2	15.5	512 1024 2048	25.6 64.0	GDDR3 GDDR5	128	620	No	15	64	11.0	4.4	1.2	99
Radeon HD 5750	Oct 13, 2009	Juniper PRO	40	1040	170	PCIe 2.1 x16	700 700	1150 1150	720:36:16	11.2	25.2	512 1024	73.6	GDDR5	128	1008	No	16	86	11.0	4.4	1.2	129
Radeon HD 5770	Oct 13, 2009	Juniper XT	40	1040	170	PCIe 2.1 x16	850 850	1200 1200	800:40:16	13.6	34.0	512 1024	76.8	GDDR5	128	1360	No	18	108	11.0	4.4	1.2	159
Radeon HD 5830	Feb 25, 2010	Cypress LE	40	2154	334	PCIe 2.1 x16	800	1000	1120:56:16	12.8	44.8	1024	128.0	GDDR5	256	1792	358.4	25	175	11.0	4.4	1.2	239
Radeon HD 5850	Sep 30, 2009	Cypress PRO	40	2154	334	PCIe 2.1 x16	725 725	1000 1000	1440:72:32	23.2	52.2	1024 2048	128.0	GDDR5	256	2088	417.6	27	151	11.0	4.4	1.2	259
Radeon HD 5870	Sep 23, 2009	Cypress XT	40	2154	334	PCIe 2.1 x16	850 850	1200 1200	1600:80:32	27.2	68.0	1024 2048	153.6	GDDR5	256	2720	544	27	188 228	11.0	4.4	1.2	379
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition	Mar 11, 2010	Cypress XT	40	2154	334	PCIe 2.1 x16	850	1200	1600:80:32	27.2	68.0	2048	153.6	GDDR5	256	2720	544	27	228	11.0	4.4	1.2	479
Radeon HD 5970	Nov 18, 2009	Hemlock XT	40	2154×2	334×2	PCIe 2.1 x16	725 725	1000 1000	1600:80:32×2	46.4	116.0	1024×2 2048×2	128×2	GDDR5	256×2	4640	928	51	294	11.0	4.4	1.2	599
Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Million)	Die Size (mm²)	Bus interface	Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)	Core config	Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)	Single Precision	Double Precision	Idle	Max.	Direct3D	OpenGL	OpenCL	Release Price (USD)
							Clock rate			Fillrate		Memory>				Processing Power (GFLOPS)		TDP> (W)		API support (version)

Radeon HD 5900

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Codenamed Hemlock, the Radeon HD 5900 series was announced on October 12, 2009, starting with the HD 5970.^[7] The Radeon HD 5900 series utilizes two Cypress graphics processors and a third-party PCI-E bridge, released for editing much of programs without any problem but and in performance gaming its also one of greatest. Similar to Radeon HD 4800 X2 series graphics cards; however, AMD has abandoned the use of X2 moniker for dual-GPU variants starting with Radeon HD 5900 series, making it the only series within the Evergreen GPU family to have two GPUs on one PCB.

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. The launching model of Radeon HD 5870 can support three display outputs at most, and one of these has to support DisplayPort. In terms of overall performance, the 5870 comes in between the GTX 470 and GTX 480 from rival company Nvidia, being closer to the GTX 480 than the GTX 470.^[8] An Eyefinity 6 edition of Radeon HD 5870 was released, with 2 GiB GDDR5 memory, supporting six simultaneous displays, all to be connected to one of the mini DisplayPort outputs and all supporting this connection natively to not require additional hardware. The Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 usable shader processors, while the Radeon HD 5850 has 1,440 usable stream cores, as 160 out of the 1,600 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. The Radeon HD 5830 has 1,120 usable stream cores and a standard core clock of 800 MHz.

Radeon HD 5700

The codename for the 5700 GPU was Juniper and it was exactly half of Cypress. Half the shader engines, half the memory controllers, half the ROPs, half the TMUs, half everything. The 5750 had one shader engine disabled (of 10), so had 720 stream processors, while the 5770 had all ten enabled. Additionally, the 5750 ran at 700 MHz and a lower voltage, while the 5770 used more power, but ran at 850 MHz. Both cards were normally found with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, but 512 MB variants did exist, performance suffering somewhat.

Radeon HD 5600

Codenamed Redwood XT, the 5600 series has all five of Redwood's shader engines enabled. As each of them has 80 VLIW-5 units, this gave it 400 stream processors. Reference clocks were 775 MHz for all 5600s, while memory clocks varied between OEMs, as did the use of DDR3 and GDDR5 memory, the latter being twice as fast.

Radeon HD 5500

A low-profile HD 5570 card

The Radeon HD 5570 was released on February 9, 2010, using the Redwood XT GPU as seen in the 5600 series. At first release was limited to DDR3 memory, but later, ATI added support for GDDR5 memory. One more variant, with only 320 stream cores, is available and Radeon HD 5550 was suggested as the product name. 5570s and 5550s were available with GDDR5, GDDR3 and DDR2 memory. The 5550 variant disabled one shader engine, so had only 320 stream processors (4 engines, 80 VLIW-5 units each).

All reference board designs of the Radeon HD 5500 series are half-height, making them suitable for a low profile form factor chassis.

Radeon HD 5400

A Radeon HD 5450 by Sapphire Technology

Codenamed Cedar,^[9] 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.

Mobile products

Graphics device drivers

AMD's proprietary graphics device driver "Catalyst"

AMD Catalyst is being developed for Microsoft Windows and Linux. As of July 2014, other operating system are not officially supported. This may be different for the AMD FirePro brand, which is based on identical hardware but features OpenGL-certified graphics device drivers.

AMD Catalyst supports of course all features advertised for the Radeon brand.

Free and open-source graphics device driver "Radeon"

The free and open-source drivers are primarily developed on Linux and for Linux, but have been ported to other operating systems as well. On HD5000, the driver using following six parts:

1. Linux kernel component DRM
2. Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display controller in kernel, called "radeon".
3. user-space component libDRM: basically one of 3d drivers. The HD5000 series are using the "r600g" driver.
4. user-space component in Mesa 3D;
5. a special and distinct 2D graphics device driver for X.Org Server; with this card, EXA is used instead of Glamor

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs.^[10]

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.^[11]

See also

• AMD FirePro
• AMD FireMV
• AMD FireStream

References

1. "AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Windows® Release Notes". AMD. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
2. "AMD is driving graphics to the edge with Eyefinity powering the SimCraft APEX sc830". SimCraft insider. 2009-09-11.
3. ATI Radeon HD 5970 Press Release
4. "O 5800, 5800, Wherefor Art Thou 5800?". [H]ArdOCP. 2009-11-10.
5. DirectX 11 in the Open: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Review
6. Unified Video Decoder#UVD-enabled GPUs
7. Dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970 released
8. http://www.techspot.com/review/283-geforce-gtx-400-vs-radeon-hd-5800/GTX 480 and GTX 470 Review
9. "AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 Codename Decoder". AMD. 2009-10-11.
10. "RadeonFeature". Xorg.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
11. "AMD Developer Guideds".

External links

• ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics
• techPowerUp! GPU Database

Laptop products

• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5700 & HD 5600 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6300M Series Graphics
• AMD Radeon HD 6500M Series Graphics
• AMD Radeon HD 6800M Series Graphics