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AMD Vesuvius
Vesuvius
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AMD's Vesuvius GPU uses the GCN 2.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 438 mm² and a transistor count of 6,200 million it is a very big chip. Vesuvius supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 2816 shading units, 176 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs.
Graphics Processor
Released
Apr 29th, 2014
GPU Name
Vesuvius
Desktop Variant Hawaii / Grenada
Generation Volcanic Islands
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
6,200 million
Density
14.2M / mm²
Die Size
438 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 GFX7 (gfx701)
DCE 8.5
UVD 4.2
VCE 2.0
SDMA 1.0.0
CLRX GCN 1.1.0
Render Config
Shading Units
2816
TMUs
176
ROPs
64
Compute Units
44
Z-Stencil 256
ACEs 8
GEs 4
L1 Cache
16 KB per CU
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Max. TDP
500 W
AMD GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the AMD Vesuvius GPU
Name
Chip
Memory
Shaders
TMUs
ROPs
GPU Clock
Memory Clock
Vesuvius XT
4 GB
2816
176
64
1018 MHz
1250 MHz
Vesuvius GPU Notes
Generation: Volcanic Islands
Desktop Variant: Hawaii / Grenada
Graphics/Compute: GFX7 (gfx701)
Display Core Engine: 8.5
Unified Video Decoder: 4.2
Video Compression Engine: 2.0
System DMA: 1.0.0
CLRX: GCN 1.1.0
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