AMD Thames

Thames

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AMD's Thames GPU uses the TeraScale 2 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 118 mm² and a transistor count of 716 million it is a small chip. Thames supports DirectX 11.2 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. It features 480 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.

Further reading: TeraScale 2 Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Feb 7th, 2011

GPU Name: Thames

Desktop Variant: Turks

Mobile Variant: Whistler

Generation: Northern Islands

Architecture: TeraScale 2

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 716 million

Density: 6.1M / mm²

Die Size: 118 mm²

Package: FCBGA-631/962

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.4

OpenCL: 1.2

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 5.0

WDDM: 1.3

Compute: GFX4

DCE: 5.0

UVD: 3.1

Render Config

Shading Units: 480

TMUs: 24

ROPs: 16

Compute Units: 6

Z-Stencil: 32

L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 256 KB

Max. TDP: 44 W

All TeraScale 2 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 Thames GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 7510M	Thames M2 LE	1024 MB	400	20	8	450 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7530M	Thames M2 LP	1024 MB	400	20	8	450 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7590M	Thames M2 XT	1024 MB	480	24	16	600 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7630M	Thames M2 LP	1024 MB	480	24	16	450 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7670M	Thames M2 XT	1024 MB	480	24	16	600 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7690M XT	Thames M2 XTX	2 GB	480	24	16	725 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7570M	Thames M2 PRO	1024 MB	480	24	16	500 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7550M	Thames M2 LP	1024 MB	480	24	16	450 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7650M	Thames M2 PRO	1024 MB	480	24	16	500 MHz	800 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7550M	Thames M2 PRO	1024 MB	480	24	16	500 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7690M	Thames M2 XTX	1024 MB	480	24	16	725 MHz	900 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6570	Thames M2 XTX	1024 MB	480	24	8	650 MHz	500 MHz

Thames GPU Notes

Generation: Northern Islands
Desktop Variant: Turks
Mobile Variant: Whistler
Graphics/Compute: GFX4
Display Core Engine: 5.0
Unified Video Decoder: 3.1

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