Radeon HD 5000 series

ATI Radeon HD 5000 series
Release date	September 10, 2009; 16 years ago
Codename	Evergreen; Manhattan
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Transistors	292M 40 nm (Cedar); 627M 40 nm (Redwood); 1.040M 40 nm (Juniper); 2.154M 40 nm (Cypress); 2x 2.154M 40 nm (Hemlock);
Cards
Entry-level	5450; 5550; 5570
Mid-range	5670; 5750; 5770
High-end	5830; 5850; 5870
Enthusiast	5970
API support
Direct3D	Direct3D 11; (feature level 11_0) ; Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5
History
Predecessor	Radeon HD 4000 series
Successor	Radeon HD 6000 series
Support status
	Unsupported

ATI Radeon HD 5000 series
Release date	September 10, 2009; 16 years ago
Codename	Evergreen; Manhattan
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Transistors	292M 40 nm (Cedar); 627M 40 nm (Redwood); 1.040M 40 nm (Juniper); 2.154M 40 nm (Cypress); 2x 2.154M 40 nm (Hemlock);
Cards
Entry-level	5450; 5550; 5570
Mid-range	5670; 5750; 5770
High-end	5830; 5850; 5870
Enthusiast	5970
API support
Direct3D	Direct3D 11; (feature level 11_0) ; Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5
History
Predecessor	Radeon HD 4000 series
Successor	Radeon HD 6000 series
Support status
	Unsupported

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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^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6]

Architecture

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

Radeon HD 5830 and above products，have the capability to calculate double-precision floating-point format.
Radeon HD 5770 and below products，have the capability to calculate only single-precision floating-point format.
OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders. These are implemented by emulation on some TeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs.

Multi-monitor support

The on-die display controllers with the new brand name ATI 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,^[7] 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)^[8] 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.

OpenCL (API)

OpenCL accelerates many scientific software packages up to a factor 10 or 100 and more, compared to contemporary CPUs. OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all TeraScale 2 and 3 chips.^[9]

Radeon Feature Table

The following table shows features of AMD/ATI's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).

Name of GPU series	Wonder	Mach	3D Rage	Rage Pro	Rage 128	R100	R200	R300	R400	R500	R600	RV670	R700	Evergreen	Northern Islands		Southern Islands	Sea Islands	Volcanic Islands	Arctic Islands/Polaris	Vega	Navi 1x	Navi 2x	Navi 3x	Navi 4x
Released	1986	1991	Apr 1996	Mar 1997	Aug 1998	Apr 2000	Aug 2001	Sep 2002	May 2004	Oct 2005	May 2007	Nov 2007	Jun 2008	Sep 2009	Oct 2010	Dec 2010	Jan 2012	Sep 2013	Jun 2015	Jun 2016, Apr 2017, Aug 2019	Jun 2017, Feb 2019	Jul 2019	Nov 2020	Dec 2022	Feb 2025
Marketing Name	Wonder	Mach	3D Rage	Rage Pro	Rage 128	Radeon 7000	Radeon 8000	Radeon 9000	Radeon X700/X800	Radeon X1000	Radeon HD 2000	Radeon HD 3000	Radeon HD 4000	Radeon HD 5000	Radeon HD 6000		Radeon HD 7000	Radeon 200	Radeon 300	Radeon 400/500/600	Radeon RX Vega, Radeon VII	Radeon RX 5000	Radeon RX 6000	Radeon RX 7000	Radeon RX 9000
AMD support
Kind	2D		3D
Instruction set architecture	Not publicly known										TeraScale instruction set						GCN instruction set					RDNA instruction set
Microarchitecture	Not publicly known					GFX1		GFX2			TeraScale 1 (VLIW5) (GFX3)			TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) (GFX4)	TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) up to 68xx (GFX4)	TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) in 69xx ^[10]^[11] (GFX5)	GCN 1st gen (GFX6)	GCN 2nd gen (GFX7)	GCN 3rd gen (GFX8)	GCN 4th gen (GFX8)	GCN 5th gen (GFX9)	RDNA (GFX10.1)	RDNA 2 (GFX10.3)	RDNA 3 (GFX11)	RDNA 4 (GFX12)
Type	Fixed pipeline^[a]						Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines				Unified shader model
Direct3D	N/a		5.0	6.0		7.0	8.1	9.0 11 (9_2)	9.0b 11 (9_2)	9.0c 11 (9_3)	10.0 11 (10_0)	10.1 11 (10_1)		11 (11_0)			11 (11_1) 12 (11_1)	11 (12_0) 12 (12_0)			11 (12_1) 12 (12_1)		11 (12_1) 12 (12_2)
Shader model	N/a						1.4	2.0+	2.0b	3.0	4.0	4.1		5.0			5.1	5.1 6.5			6.7				6.8
OpenGL	N/a			1.1	1.2	1.3		1.5^[b]^[12]			3.3			4.5 (Windows), 4.6 (Linux Mesa 25.2+)^[13]			4.6^[14]^[c]
Vulkan	N/a															1.1^[c]^[d]	1.3^[15]^[e]		1.4^[16]
OpenCL	N/a										Close to Metal		1.1 (not supported by Mesa)	1.2+ (on Linux: 1.1+ (no Image support on Clover, with Rusticl) with Mesa, 1.2+ on GCN 1.Gen)				2.0+ (Adrenalin driver on Win 7+) (on Linux ROCm, Mesa 1.2+ (no support in Clover, only Rusticl, Mesa, 2.0+ and 3.0 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm), 5th gen: 2.2 win 10+ and Linux RocM 5.0+				2.2+ and 3.0 Windows 8.1+ and Linux ROCm 5.0+ (Mesa Rusticl 1.2+ and 3.0 (2.1+ and 2.2+))^[17]^[18]^[19]
HSA / ROCm	N/a																					?
Video decoding ASIC	N/a										Avivo/UVD	UVD+	UVD 2	UVD 2.2	UVD 3		UVD 4	UVD 4.2	UVD 5.0 or 6.0	UVD 6.3	UVD 7 ^[20]^[f]	VCN 2.0 ^[20]^[f]	VCN 3.0 ^[21]	VCN 4.0	VCN 5.0
Video encoding ASIC	N/a																VCE 1.0	VCE 2.0	VCE 3.0 or 3.1	VCE 3.4	VCE 4.0 ^[20]^[f]	VCN 2.0 ^[20]^[f]	VCN 3.0 ^[21]	VCN 4.0	VCN 5.0
Fluid Motion ^[g]																								?
Power saving	?										PowerPlay				PowerTune		PowerTune & ZeroCore Power					?
TrueAudio	N/a																	Via dedicated DSP		Via shaders
FreeSync	N/a																	1 2
HDCP^[h]	N/a										?							1.4		2.2		2.3 ^[22]
PlayReady^[h]	N/a																			3.0		3.0
Supported displays^[i]						1–2	2							2–6								?			4
Max. resolution	?													2–6 × 2560×1600			2–6 × 4096×2160 @ 30 Hz			2–6 × 5120×2880 @ 60 Hz	3 × 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz ^[23]	7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor		7680x4320 @165 Hz	7680x4320
`/drm/radeon`^[j]																			N/a
`/drm/amdgpu`^[j]	N/a																	Optional ^[24]

^ The Radeon 100 Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders.
^ R300, R400 and R500 based cards do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
^ ^a ^b OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
^ Vulkan support is theoretically possible but has not been implemented in a stable driver.
^ Vulkan support in Linux relies on the amdgpu kernel driver which is incomplete and not enabled by default for GFX6 and GFX7.
^ ^a ^b ^c The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
^ Video processing for video frame rate interpolation technique. In Windows it works as a DirectShow filter in your player. In Linux, there is no support on the part of drivers and / or community.
^ ^a ^b To play protected video content, it also requires card, operating system, driver, and application support. A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.
^ More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
^ ^a ^b DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. AMDgpu is the Linux kernel module. Support in this table refers to the most current version.

Desktop products

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (million)	Die size (mm²)	Bus interface	Clock rate		Core config^[a]	Fillrate		Memory				Processing power (GFLOPS)		TDP (Watts)^[b]		CrossFire support	API support (version)			Release price (USD)
Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Transistors (million)	Die size (mm²)	Bus interface	Core (MHz)	Memory (MHz)	Core config^[a]	Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (Bit)	Single precision	Double precision	Idle	Max.	CrossFire support	Direct3D	OpenGL	OpenCL	Release price (USD)
Radeon HD 5450	Feb 4, 2010	Cedar	40	292	59	PCIe 2.1 x16 PCI 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	N/a	6.4	19.1	No	11.3 (11 0)	4.5	1.2	~50
Radeon HD 5550	Feb 9, 2010	Redwood LE		627	104	PCIe 2.1 x16	550 550 550	400 800 800	320:16:8	4.4	8.8		12.8 25.6 51.2	DDR2 GDDR3 GDDR5	128	352		10	39					~70
Radeon HD 5570	Feb 9, 2010	Redwood PRO					650 650	400 900	400:20:8	5.2	13.0		12.8 28.8 57.6	DDR2 GDDR3 GDDR5		520		10						80
Radeon HD 5610	May 14, 2011	Redwood PRO					650	500		5.2	13.0	1024	16.0	GDDR3		520		?						?
Radeon HD 5670	Jan 14, 2010	Redwood XT					775 775	800 1000		6.2	15.5	512 1024 2048	25.6 64.0	GDDR3 GDDR5		620		15	64	4-way CrossFire				99
Radeon HD 5750	Oct 13, 2009	Juniper PRO		1040	170		700 700	1150 1150	720:36:16	11.2	25.2	512 1024	73.6	GDDR5		1008		16	86					129
Radeon HD 5770	Oct 13, 2009	Juniper XT		1040	170		850 850	1200 1200	800:40:16	13.6	34.0	512 1024	76.8			1360		18	108					159
Radeon HD 5830	Feb 25, 2010	Cypress LE		2154	334		800	1000	1120:56:16	12.8	44.8	1024	128.0		256	1792	358.4	25	175					239
Radeon HD 5850	Sep 30, 2009	Cypress PRO					725 725	1000 1000	1440:72:32	23.2	52.2	1024 2048	128.0			2088	417.6	27	151					259
Radeon HD 5870	Sep 23, 2009	Cypress XT					850 850	1200 1200	1600:80:32	27.2	68.0	1024 2048	153.6			2720	544		188 228					379
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition^[c]^[25]	Mar 11, 2010	Cypress XT					850	1200	1600:80:32	27.2	68.0	2048	153.6			2720	544		228					479
Radeon HD 5970	Nov 18, 2009	Hemlock		2154×2	334×2		725 725	1000 1000	1600:80:32×2	46.4	116.0	1024×2 2048×2	128×2		256×2	4640	928	51	294	2-way CrossFire				599

^ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
^ The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP.
^ All chips feature AMD Eyefinity, but the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition card also have six mini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.

Radeon HD 5900

Codenamed Hemlock, the Radeon HD 5900 series was announced on October 12, 2009, starting with the HD 5970.^[26] The Radeon HD 5900 series utilizes two Cypress graphics processors and a third-party PCI-E bridge. 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.^[27] 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

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

Codenamed Cedar,^[28] 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 systems 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:

Linux kernel component DRM
Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display controller in kernel, called "radeon".
user-space component libDRM: basically one of 3d drivers. The HD5000 series are using the "r600g" driver.
user-space component in Mesa 3D;
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.^[29]

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.^[30]

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Laptop products

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^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6]