The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD,[9] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.

[10] The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.

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.

[13][14][15][16] The 28 nm product line is divided in three dies (Tahiti, Pitcairn, and Cape Verde), each one highly increasing shader units (32, 20 and 10 respectively).

While this gives a high increase in single-precision floating point, there is however a significant departure in double-precision compute power.

This card is based on the Bonaire architecture, which features 896 stream cores using 2nd Generation GCN technology, an incremental update.

In May 2013, AMD launched the Radeon HD 7730, based on the Cape Verde LE graphics processor.

This may be different for the AMD FirePro brand, which is based on identical hardware but features OpenGL-certified graphics device drivers.

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