AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series
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| Release date | October 8, 2013 |
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| Codename | Southern Islands Sea Islands Volcanic Islands |
| Architecture | GCN 2nd gen |
| Cards | |
| Entry-level | Radeon R5 210 Radeon R5 220 Radeon R5 230 Radeon R5 235 Radeon R5 235X |
| Mid-range | Radeon R7 240 Radeon R7 250 Radeon R7 250X Radeon R7 260 Radeon R7 260X Radeon R7 265 |
| High-end | Radeon R9 270 Radeon R9 270X Radeon R9 280 Radeon R9 280X Radeon R9 285 |
| Enthusiast | Radeon R9 290 Radeon R9 290X Radeon R9 295X2 |
| API support | |
| Direct3D | |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 2.0 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5 |
| Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.0 SPIR-V |
| History | |
| Predecessor |
Radeon HD 7000 Series Radeon HD 8000 series |
| Successor | AMD Radeon RX 400 series |
The Rx 200 series is a family of GPUs developed by AMD. A "preview" was seen on September 25, 2013. These GPUs are manufactured on a 28 nm Gate-Last process through TSMC or Common Platform Alliance.
The Rx 200 series was announced on September 25, 2013, at the AMD GPU14 Tech Day event.Non-disclosure agreements were lifted on October 15, except for the R9 290X, and pre-orders opened on October 3.
This article is about all products under the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series brand.
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.
AMD TrueAudio was introduced with the AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series, but can only be found on the dies of GCN 2/3 products.
AMD'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.
Radeon GPUs once performed better in mining than their Nvidia GeForce counterparts. This led to limited supply and huge price increases in Q4 of 2013 and Q1 of 2014. Since Q2 of 2014 availability of AMD GPUs as well as pricing has, in most cases, returned to normal.
Because many of the products in the range are rebadged versions of Radeon HD products, they remain compatible with the original versions when used in CrossFire mode. For example, the Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon R7 250X both use the 'Cape Verde XT' chip so have identical specifications and will work in CrossFire mode. This provides a useful upgrade option for anyone who owns an existing Radeon HD card and has a CrossFire compatible motherboard.
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