AMD Turks

Turks

Turks XT

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AMD's Turks GPU uses the TeraScale 2 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 118 mm² and a transistor count of 716 million it is a small chip. Turks supports DirectX 11.2 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. It features 480 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.

Further reading: TeraScale 2 Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Feb 7th, 2011

GPU Name: Turks

Mobile Variant: Whistler / Thames

Generation: Northern Islands

Architecture: TeraScale 2

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 716 million

Density: 6.1M / mm²

Die Size: 118 mm²

Package: FCBGA-962

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.4

OpenCL: 1.2

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 5.0

WDDM: 1.3

Compute: GFX4

Render Config

Shading Units: 480

TMUs: 24

ROPs: 8

Compute Units: 6

Z-Stencil: 32

L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 256 KB

Max. TDP: 75 W

All TeraScale 2 GPUs

AMD GPU Architecture History

2024 RDNA 4.0
2024 RDNA 3.5
2023-2024 CDNA 3.0
2022-2024 RDNA 3.0
2021 CDNA 2.0
2020 CDNA 1.0
2020-2024 RDNA 2.0
2019-2020 RDNA 1.0
2018-2022 GCN 5.1
2017-2020 GCN 5.0
2016-2020 GCN 4.0
2014-2019 GCN 3.0
2013-2017 GCN 2.0
2011-2020 GCN 1.0
2010-2013 TeraScale 3
2009-2015 TeraScale 2
2005-2013 TeraScale
2005-2007 Ultra-Threaded SE

Graphics cards using the AMD Turks GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 6570	Turks PRO	2 GB	480	24	8	650 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM	Turks XT	512 MB	480	24	8	800 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7570	Turks PRO-L	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6670	Turks XT	1024 MB	480	24	8	800 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM	Turks PRO-G	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	900 MHz
AMD FirePro V4900	Turks XT GL	1024 MB	480	24	8	800 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD FirePro V3900	Turks GL	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	900 MHz
AMD FirePro M2000	Turks GL	1024 MB	480	24	8	500 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7670A	Turks XT	1024 MB	480	24	8	600 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6670A	Turks XT	1024 MB	480	24	8	600 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7510 OEM	Turks LE	1024 MB	320	16	4	650 MHz	667 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6510	Turks LE	1024 MB	320	16	8	650 MHz	667 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM Rebrand	Turks PRO	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	Turks PRO	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8510 OEM	Turks PRO	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	800 MHz

Turks GPU Notes

Generation: Northern Islands
Mobile Variant: Whistler / Thames
Graphics/Compute: GFX4
Display Core Engine: 5.0
Unified Video Decoder: 3.1

Latest Drivers:
Windows XP / 8:
Catalyst Software Suite 14.4

Windows Vista :
Catalyst Software Suite 13.12

Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10:
Catalyst Software Suite 15.7.1 / 16.2.1 Beta

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