AMD Capsaicin

Capsaicin

Die Shot

Block Diagram

Geometry Diagram

ACE Diagram

AMD's Capsaicin GPU uses the GCN 3.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 596 mm² and a transistor count of 8,900 million it is a very big chip. Capsaicin supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 4096 shading units, 256 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs.

Further reading: GCN 3.0 Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Mar 31st, 2016

GPU Name: Capsaicin

Desktop Variant: Fiji

Generation: Pirate Islands

Architecture: GCN 3.0

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 8,900 million

Density: 14.9M / mm²

Die Size: 596 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: GFX8 (gfx803)

DCE: 10.0

UVD: 6.0

VCE: 3.0

SDMA: 3.0.0

CLRX: GCN 1.2.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 4096

TMUs: 256

ROPs: 64

Compute Units: 64

Z-Stencil: 256

ACEs: 8

GEs: 4

L1 Cache: 16 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 2048 KB

Max. TDP: 350 W

All GCN 3.0 GPUs

AMD GPU Architecture History

2023 CDNA 3.0
2022-2024 RDNA 3.0
2021 CDNA 2.0
2020 CDNA 1.0
2020-2023 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 Capsaicin GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2	Capsaicin XT C9	4 GB	4096	256	64	1050 MHz	500 MHz
AMD Radeon Pro Duo	Capsaicin XT C9	4 GB	4096	256	64	1000 MHz	500 MHz
AMD FirePro S9300 X2	Capsaicin XT C1	4 GB	4096	256	64	975 MHz	500 MHz

Capsaicin GPU Notes

Generation: Pirate Islands
Desktop Variant: Fiji
Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx803)
Display Core Engine: 10.0
Unified Video Decoder: 6.0
Video Compression Engine: 3.0
System DMA: 3.0.0
CLRX: GCN 1.2.0

Latest Drivers:
Windows 7:
64-bit: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1

Windows 8.1:
64-bit: Radeon Software: Crimson ReLive Edition 17.4.4 / 17.7.1

Windows 10:
64-bit: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1

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