Radeon HD 6000 Series
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| Release date | October 22, 2010 |
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| Codename | Northern Islands Vancouver |
| Architecture |
TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3 |
| Fabrication process and transistors |
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| Cards | |
| Entry-level | 64xx - 66xx |
| Mid-range | 67xx |
| High-end | 68xx - 6970 |
| Enthusiast | 6990 |
| API support | |
| Direct3D |
Direct3D 11 Shader Model 5.0 |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 1.2 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.4 |
| History | |
| Predecessor | Radeon HD 5000 Series |
| Successor | Radeon HD 7000 Series |
The Northern Islands series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forming part of its Radeon-brand, based on the 40 nm process. Some models are based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), some on the new TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) introduced with them.
Starting with this family, the former ATI brand was officially discontinued in favor of making a correlation between the graphics products and the AMD branding for computing platforms (the CPUs and chipsets). Therefore, the AMD brand was used as the replacement. The logo for graphics products and technologies also received a minor makeover (using design elements of the 2010 "AMD Vision" logo).
Its direct competitor was Nvidia's GeForce 500 Series; they were launched approximately a month apart.
This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 6000 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.
Unified Video Decoder (UVD3) is present on the dice of all products and supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.
The 6800 series was the first batch of the Radeon 6000 series. Codenamed ''Northern Islands'', this series was released on October 22, 2010 after brief delays. Over the following months, the budget, midrange, and high-end cards were filled into the series.
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