
Instead, it sells Radeon GPUs to 3rd party board manufacturers, who build and sell the Radeon-based boards to the OEM and retail channel.

AMD no longer sells Radeon cards at the retail level.The Radeon R800 is expected to be launched on a 40 nm fabrication process, with 2000 stream processors and compatible with the next major version of the DirectX API, DirectX 11 which is aimed at a launch late July, 2009. The HD 4850 and HD 4870 have 800 stream processors and GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory respectively.ĪTI's latest series. Mostly a bolstered card with many more stream processors, with improvements to power consumption and GDDR5 support for the high-end RV770 chip. There are also products supporting DirectX 10.1, known as the HD 3000 series, with a die shrink.īased on the R600 architecture. Releases of this platform include the HD 2400, HD 2600 and HD 2900.
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Cards released include X1300 - X1950.ĪTI's first series of ATI Radeon GPUs supporting the Direct3D 10.0 specification and the company's second graphics solution to employ unified shader technology. Launched in October 2005, this series brought a number of enhancements including the floating point render target technology necessary for HDR rendering with anti-aliasing. This generation's technology is used in Radeon X700 - X850.ĪTI's DirectX 9.0c series of graphics cards, with complete Shader Model 3.0 support. Shader Model 2b, the specification ATI and Microsoft defined with this generation, offered somewhat more shader program flexibility. While heavily based upon the previous generation, this line included extensions to the Shader Model 2 feature-set. This line includes Radeon 8500 - 9200, 9250.ĪTI's DirectX 9.0 technology, released in 2002, incorporated pixel shader.

This design included ATI's first programmable shader architecture and introduced the more advanced pixel shader 1.4. The final release was the Radeon 7500.ĪTI's second generation Radeon. Initial models included Radeon SDR, DDR and 7000/VE. R100 brought with it large gains in bandwidth and fill-rate efficiency through the new HyperZ technology. 7 External links ATI Radeon Processor Generations SeriesĪTI's first graphics processor to be fully DirectX 7 compliant.
