ATI/AMD have developed different technologies, such as TruForm, HyperMemory, HyperZ, XGP, Eyefinity for multi-monitor setups, PowerPlay for power-saving, CrossFire (for multi-GPU) or Hybrid Graphics.
[3] On 11 September 2015, AMD's GPU business was split into a separate unit known as Radeon Technologies Group, with Raja Koduri as Senior Vice President and chief architect.
Manufacturers of the Radeon cards—some of whom also make motherboards—include ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Club 3D, Diamond, Force3D, Gainward, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, VisionTek, and XFX.
The only release in this generation was the Radeon 7500, which introduced little in the way of new features but offered substantial performance improvements over its predecessors.
ATI released beta drivers that introduced full OpenGL 4.0 support on all variants of this series in March 2010.
It features a 3rd generation 40 nm design, rebalancing the existing architecture with redesigned shaders to give it better performance.
The "Sea Islands" were OEM rebadges of the 7000 series, with only three products, code named Oland, available for general retail.
"Volcanic Islands" GPUs were introduced with the AMD Radeon RX 200 series, and were first released in late 2013.
[8] The Radeon RX 200 line is mainly based on AMD's GCN architecture, with the lower end, OEM cards still using VLIW5.
[9] GPUs codenamed "Caribbean Islands"[10] were introduced with the AMD Radeon RX 300 series, released in 2015.
AMD unveiled the Radeon RX 6000 series, its next-gen RDNA 2 graphics cards at an online event on 28 October 2020.
[22][23][24][25][26] Some generations vary from their predecessors predominantly due to architectural improvements, while others were adapted primarily to new manufacturing processes with fewer functional changes.
[33][34][35] The following table shows features of AMD/ATI's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).
This driver, labelled Radeon Software Crimson Edition, overhauls the UI with Qt, resulting in better responsiveness from a design and system perspective.
This may be different for the Radeon Pro brand, which is based on identical hardware but features OpenGL-certified graphics device drivers.
ATI previously offered driver updates for their retail and integrated Macintosh video cards and chipsets.
Though it gives more control over advanced features of the graphics chipset, ATI Displays has limited functionality compared to Catalyst for Windows or Linux.
It is composed out of five parts: The free and open-source driver supports many of the features available in Radeon-branded cards and APUs, such as multi-monitor or hybrid graphics.
[60] The RadeonHD AmigaOS 4 driver has been developed by Hans de Ruiter[61] funded and owned by A-EON Technology Ltd.
A new Radeon HD driver was developed with the unofficial and indirect guidance of AMD open source engineers and currently exists in recent Haiku versions.
The new Radeon HD driver supports native mode setting on R600 through Southern Islands GPU's.
[64] This was supposed to be fixed at 2024 Q1 but it has been postponed several times and the current plan for desktop CPUs containing Radeon GPU and GPUs mitigation is set for 2025 Q2 leaving customers exposed to it for more than year.
AMD (and its predecessor ATI) have released a series of embedded GPUs targeted toward medical, entertainment, and display devices.
[95] AMD planned to enter solid state drive market with the introduction of R7 models powered by Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller and Toshiba 19 nm MLC flash memory, and initially available in 120G, 240G, 480G capacities.
[96][97] The R7 Series SSD was released on August 9, 2014, which included Toshiba's A19 MLC NAND flash memory, Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00 controller.