AMD Meso

Meso

Meso PRO

AMD's Meso GPU uses the GCN 3.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 125 mm² and a transistor count of 1,550 million it is a small chip. Meso supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 384 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.

Further reading: GCN 3.0 Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: May 5th, 2015

GPU Name: Meso

Chip Variant: Iceland / Topaz

Generation: Volcanic Islands

Architecture: GCN 3.0

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 1,550 million

Density: 12.4M / mm²

Die Size: 125 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 (gfx802)

DCE: No Support

UVD: No Support

VCE: No Support

SDMA: 2.0.0

CLRX: GCN 1.2.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 384

TMUs: 24

ROPs: 8

Compute Units: 6

L1 Cache: 16 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 256 KB

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 Meso GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	Base Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon R7 M360	Meso XT	2 GB	384	24	8	1100 MHz	1125 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 M340	Meso PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	943 MHz	1021 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 M350	Meso XT	4 GB	384	24	8	1000 MHz	1015 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R5 M465	Meso XT	4 GB	384	24	8	1000 MHz	1015 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R5 M445	Meso XT	4 GB	384	24	8	920 MHz		1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R8 M365DX	Meso XT	System Shared	384	24	8	900 MHz	1125 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R7 M440	Meso PRO	4 GB	320	20	8	891 MHz		900 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 M445	Meso PRO	4 GB	320	20	8	780 MHz	920 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 M460	Meso XT	2 GB	384	24	8	730 MHz	1024 MHz	1125 MHz
AMD Radeon R5 M315	Meso LE	2 GB	384	24	8	970 MHz		900 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 A360	Meso XT	2 GB	384	24	8	1100 MHz	1125 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	Meso PRO	System Shared	320	20	8	780 MHz	1021 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R8 M535DX	Meso PRO	System Shared	320	20	8	780 MHz	891 MHz	System Shared

Meso GPU Notes

Generation: Volcanic Islands
Desktop Variant: Iceland
Mobile Variant: Topaz / Weston / Polaris 24
Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx802)
Display Core Engine: No Support
Unified Video Decoder: No Support
Video Compression Engine: No Support
System DMA: 2.0.0
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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