AMD Bonaire

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AMD's Bonaire GPU uses the GCN 2.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 160 mm² and a transistor count of 2,080 million it is a small chip. Bonaire supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 can be used. It features 896 shading units, 56 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.

Further reading: Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Mar 22nd, 2013

GPU Name: Bonaire

Desktop Variant: Tobago

Mobile Variant: Saturn / Strato

Mobile Variant 2: Emerald

Generation: Sea Islands

Architecture: GCN 2.0

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 2,080 million

Density: 13.0M / mm²

Die Size: 160 mm²

Package: FCBGA-1093

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 (gfx704)

DCE: 8.2

UVD: 4.2

VCE: 2.0

SDMA: 1.0.0

CLRX: GCN 1.1.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 896

TMUs: 56

ROPs: 16

Compute Units: 14

Z-Stencil: 64

ACEs: 2

GEs: 2

L1 Cache: 16 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 256 KB

Max. TDP: 115 W

All GCN 2.0 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 Bonaire GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 8770 OEM	Bonaire XT	1024 MB	896	56	16	1050 MHz	1500 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 7790	Bonaire XT	1024 MB	896	56	16	1000 MHz	1500 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 260X	Bonaire XTX	2 GB	896	56	16	1100 MHz	1625 MHz
AMD Radeon R7 260	Bonaire PRO	2 GB	768	48	16	1000 MHz	1500 MHz
AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM	Bonaire XTX	1024 MB	896	56	16	1100 MHz	1625 MHz
AMD FirePro W5100	Bonaire PRO GL	4 GB	768	48	16	930 MHz	1500 MHz
AMD FirePro W4300	Bonaire PRO GL	4 GB	768	48	16	930 MHz	1500 MHz

Bonaire GPU Notes

Generation: Sea Islands
Desktop Variant: Tobago
Mobile Variant: Saturn / Strato / Emerald
Graphics/Compute: GFX7 (gfx704)
Display Core Engine: 8.2
Unified Video Decoder: 4.2
Video Compression Engine: 2.0
System DMA: 1.0.0
CLRX: GCN 1.1.0

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