AMD Beema

Beema

AMD's Beema GPU uses the GCN 2.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at GlobalFoundries. With a die size of 107 mm² and a transistor count of 930 million it is a small chip. Beema supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 128 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs.

Further reading: Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Jun 6th, 2014

GPU Name: Beema

Codename: Godavari

Generation: Sea Islands

Architecture: GCN 2.0

Foundry: GlobalFoundries

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 930 million

Density: 8.7M / mm²

Die Size: 107 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (12_0)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 2.1

Vulkan: 1.2.170

Shader Model: 6.5

WDDM: 2.7

Compute: GFX7 (gfx703)

DCE: 8.3

UVD: 4.2

VCE: 2.0

CLRX: GCN 1.1.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 128

TMUs: 8

ROPs: 4

Compute Units: 2

Max. TDP: 15 W

All GCN 2.0 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 Beema GPU

Name	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	600 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	800 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	300 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	800 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	497 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R3E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	351 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	300 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R1E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	64	8	4	497 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R1E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	64	8	4	497 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R5E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	800 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R4E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	800 MHz	System Shared

Beema GPU Notes

Generation: Sea Islands
Codename: Godavari (Samara)
Graphics/Compute: GFX7 (gfx703)
Display Core Engine: 8.3
Unified Video Decoder: 4.2
Video Compression Engine: 2.0
CLRX: GCN 1.1.0

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