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AMD's Sun GPU uses the GCN 1.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 56 mm² and a transistor count of 690 million it is a very small chip. Sun supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 (1.2) can be used. It features 320 shading units, 20 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.
Further reading: GCN 1.0 Architecture Whitepaper , Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released
Feb 2nd, 2013
GPU Name
Sun
Desktop Variant
Hainan
Mobile Variant
Jet / Exo / Banks
Generation
Sea Islands
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
690 million
Density
12.3M / mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Package
FCBGA-631/962

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
WDDM
2.7
Compute
GFX6 (gfx601)
DCE
No Support
UVD
No Support
VCE
No Support
CLRX
GCN 1.0.0

Render Config

Shading Units
320
TMUs
20
ROPs
8
Compute Units
5
ACEs
2
GEs
1
L1 Cache
16 KB per CU
L2 Cache
128 KB
Max. TDP
45 W

All GCN 1.0 GPUs

AMD GPU Architecture History

Graphics cards using the AMD Sun GPU

Name Chip Memory Shaders TMUs ROPs Base Clock Boost Clock Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 8550M
Sun S3 LE 1024 MB 320 20 8 650 MHz 850 MHz 900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8570M
Sun S3 PRO 1024 MB 320 20 8 750 MHz 825 MHz 1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8690M
Sun S3 XT 2 GB 320 20 8 925 MHz 975 MHz 1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8670M
Sun S3 XT 1024 MB 320 20 8 925 MHz 975 MHz 900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8590M
Sun S3 PRO 1024 MB 320 20 8 750 MHz 825 MHz 1125 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8670A
Sun M2 XT 1024 MB 320 20 8 600 MHz 1000 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 8570A
Sun M2 PRO 1024 MB 320 20 8 750 MHz 825 MHz 1000 MHz
AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand
Sun S3 LE 1024 MB 320 20 8 780 MHz 850 MHz 900 MHz
AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand
Sun S3 UL 2 GB 320 20 8 750 MHz 825 MHz 900 MHz

Sun GPU Notes

Generation: Sea Islands
Desktop Variant: Hainan
Mobile Variant: Jet / Exo / Banks
Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx601)
Display Core Engine: No Support
Unified Video Decoder: No Support
Video Compression Engine: No Support
CLRX: GCN 1.0
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