Evergreen (GPU family)
| Release date | September 10, 2009 |
|---|---|
| Codename | Evergreen Manhattan |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 |
| Fabrication process and transistors |
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| Cards | |
| Entry-level | 5450 5550 5570 |
| Mid-range | 5670 5750 5770 |
| High-end | 5830 5850 5870 |
| Enthusiast | 5970 |
| API support | |
| Direct3D |
Direct3D 11 Shader Model 5.0 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 1.2 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.4 |
| 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.
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 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 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.
This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 5000 Series brand. TeraScale 2 was introduced with this.
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, and HDMI output is capable of 12-bit per component output.
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