Radeon 200 series

These GPUs are manufactured on a 28 nm Gate-Last process through TSMC or Common Platform Alliance.

[10] 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.

During 2014 the Radeon R9 200 series GPUs offered a very competitive price for usage in cryptocurrency mining.

This provides a useful upgrade option for anyone who owns an existing Radeon HD card and has a CrossFire compatible motherboard.

This feature allows users to run games with higher image quality by rendering frames at above native resolution.

Vulkan 1.2 requires GCN 2nd gen or higher with the Adrenalin 20.1 and Linux Mesa 20.0 drivers and up.

The Radeon R9 285 was announced on August 23, 2014 at AMD's 30 years of graphics celebration and released September 2, 2014.

With a launch price of $299, it is based on the Tahiti XTL chip, being a slightly upgraded, rebranded Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.

It will have 2 GB of GDDR5 memory as standard and will also feature TrueAudio, on-chip audio DSP based on Tensilica HiFi EP architecture.

On February 10, 2014, AMD announced the R7 250X which is based on the Cape Verde GPU with 640 GCN cores and an MSRP of $99.

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

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

[4] Unlike the nouveau project for Nvidia graphics cards, the open-source "Radeon" drivers are not reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.

A R9 290X by Sapphire