AMD Stoney

Stoney

AMD's Stoney GPU uses the GCN 3.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at GlobalFoundries. With a die size of 125 mm² and a transistor count of 1,200 million it is a small chip. Stoney supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 192 shading units, 12 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.

Further reading: GCN 3.0 Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Jun 1st, 2016

GPU Name: Stoney

Codename: Carizzo

Generation: Volcanic Islands

Architecture: GCN 3.0

Foundry: GlobalFoundries

Process Type: 28SHP HKMG SOI

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 1,200 million

Density: 9.6M / mm²

Die Size: 125 mm²

Package: µBGA

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 (gfx810)

DCE: 11.0

UVD: 6.2

VCE: 3.4

SDMA: 3.0.0

CLRX: GCN 1.2.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 192

TMUs: 12

ROPs: 8

Compute Units: 3

Max. TDP: 15 W

All GCN 3.0 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 Stoney GPU

Name	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	Base Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	192	12	8	200 MHz	847 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	200 MHz	600 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R3 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	200 MHz	655 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R4 Mobile Graphics	System Shared	192	12	8	200 MHz	655 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	128	8	4	200 MHz	600 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R1E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	64	8	4	300 MHz	600 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R4E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	192	12	8	400 MHz	600 MHz	System Shared
AMD Radeon R5E Mobile Graphics	System Shared	192	12	8	200 MHz	847 MHz	System Shared

Stoney GPU Notes

Generation: Volcanic Islands
Codename: Carrizo
Graphics/Compute: GFX8 (gfx810)
Display Core Engine: 11.0
Unified Video Decoder: 6.2
Video Compression Engine: 3.4
System DMA: 3.0.0
CLRX: GCN 1.2.0

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