AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013,[9][10][11] with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture.

The Radeon HD 7000 series was launched in 2011 and it marked AMD's shift from VLIW (TeraScale) to RISC/SIMD architecture (Graphics Core Next).

The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 alongside the Radeon HD 5000 series and have been present on all chips since then.

[14][needs update] On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on Windows and Linux is supported on all GCN-architecture based GPUs.

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