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AMD(ATI) RADEON R(V)7XX Reference

Specifications, architecture, technologies, etc.

Alexey Berillo; December 1, 2008.


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R(V)7XX GPU specifications


Codename RV770 RV730 RV710
Baseline review Here Here
Process technology, nm 55
Transistors, M 956 514 242
Unified processors 160*5 64*5 16*5
Texture units 40 32 8
Blending units 16 8 4
Memory bus 256 128 64
Memory types DDR, DDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, GDDR5
System bus PCI-Express 2.0 16x
RAMDAC 2 x 400MHz
Interfaces TV-Out
TV-In (video capture chip required)
2 x DVI Dual Link
HDMI
DisplayPort
Vertex shaders 4.1
Pixel shaders 4.1
Precision of pixel calculations FP32/FP64
Precision of vertex calculations FP32/FP64
Texture component formats FP32, FP16
I8
DXTC, S3TC
3Dc
Rendering formats FP32 and FP16
I8
I10 (RGBA 10:10:10:2)
other
MRT Available
Antialiasing 2x-8x MSAA
CFAA 24x
Z generation 2x in Z-only mode

R(V)7XX-based reference card specifications


Graphics card GPU
Bus
ALU/TMU Core clock (MHz) Memory frequency (MHz) Memory capacity (MB) Memory bandwidth (GB)
bit
Texel rate (Mtex) Fill rate (Mpix)
RADEON HD 4550 RV710
PEG16x
80/8 600 800(1600) 256/512 DDR3 12.8
(64)
4800 2400
RADEON HD 4650 RV730
PEG16x
320/32 600 500(1000) 512 DDR2 16.0
(128)
19200 4800
RADEON HD 4670 RV730
PEG16x
320/32 750 1000(2000) 512 GDDR3 32.0
(128)
24000 6000
RADEON HD 4850 RV770
PEG16x
800/40 625 1000(2000) 512 GDDR3 64.0
(256)
25000 10000
RADEON HD 4870 RV770
PEG16x
800/40 750 900(3600) 512 GDDR5 115.0
(256)
30000 12000
RADEON HD 4850 X2 2xRV770
PEG16x
2x(800/40) 625 1000(2000) 2x1024 GDDR3 2x64.0
(2x256)
50000 20000
RADEON HD 4870 X2 2xRV770
PEG16x
2x(800/40) 750 900(3600) 2x1024 GDDR5 2x115.0
(2x256)
60000 24000

Details of RV770, RADEON HD 4800 Series

  • Codename: RV770
  • Process technology: 55 nm
  • 956 million transistors
  • Unified architecture with an array of common processors for streaming processing of vertices and pixels, as well as other data
  • Hardware support for DirectX 10.1, including new Shader Model 4.1, geometry generation, and stream output
  • 256-bit memory bus: Four 64-bit controllers supporting GDDR3/GDDR5
  • Core clock: 625-750 MHz
  • 10 SIMD cores, including 800 scalar floating-point ALUs (integer and floating-point formats, support for FP32 and FP64 in compliance with IEEE 754)
  • 10 enlarged texture units supporting FP16 and FP32 formats
  • 40 texture address units
  • 160 texture fetch units
  • 40 bilinear filtering units that can filter FP16 textures at full speed, trilinear and anisotropic filtering for all texture formats
  • Dynamic branching in pixel and vertex shaders
  • 16 ROPs supporting antialiasing with programmable sample patterns (over 16 samples per pixel), including FP16 or FP32 formats of the frame buffer. Peak performance is up to 16 samples per cycle (including MSAA 2x/4x and FP16 buffers), 64 samples per cycle in Z only mode
  • Writing results up to eight frame buffers simultaneously (MRT)
  • Integrated support for two RAMDACs, two Dual Link DVIs, HDMI, HDTV, DisplayPort

RADEON HD 4870 specifications

  • Core clock: 750 MHz
  • Unified processors: 800
  • 40 texture units, 16 blending units
  • Effective memory frequency: 3600 MHz (4*900 MHz)
  • Memory type: GDDR5
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Memory bandwidth: 115 GB/sec
  • Maximum theoretical fillrate: 12.0 gigapixel per second
  • Theoretical texture sampling rate: 30.0 gigatexel per second
  • Two CrossFireX connectors
  • PCI Express 2.0 x16
  • 2 x DVI-I Dual Link, 2560x1600 video output
  • TV-Out, HDTV-Out, support for HDCP, HDMI, DisplayPort
  • Power consumption: up to 160 W (two 6-pin connectors)
  • Two-slot design
  • MSRP: $299

RADEON HD 4850 specifications

  • Core clock: 625 MHz
  • Unified processors: 800
  • 40 texture units, 16 blending units
  • Effective memory frequency: 2000 MHz (2*1000 MHz)
  • Memory type: GDDR3
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Memory bandwidth: 64 GB/sec
  • Maximum theoretical fillrate: 10.0 gigapixel per second
  • Theoretical texture sampling rate: 25.0 gigatexel per second.
  • Two CrossFireX connectors
  • PCI Express 2.0 x16
  • 2 x DVI-I Dual Link, 2560x1600 video output
  • TV-Out, HDTV-Out, support for HDCP, HDMI, DisplayPort
  • Power consumption: up to 110 W (one 6-pin connector)
  • Single-slot design
  • MSRP: $199

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