AMD Cayman

Cayman

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AMD's Cayman GPU uses the TeraScale 3 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 389 mm² and a transistor count of 2,640 million it is a large chip. Cayman supports DirectX 11.2 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. It features 1536 shading units, 96 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.

Further reading: Cayman Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Dec 14th, 2010

GPU Name: Cayman

Desktop Variant: Antilles

Generation: Northern Islands

Architecture: TeraScale 3

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 2,640 million

Density: 6.8M / mm²

Die Size: 389 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.4

OpenCL: 1.2

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 5.0

WDDM: 1.3

Compute: GFX5

DCE: 5.0

UVD: 3.1

Render Config

Shading Units: 1536

TMUs: 96

ROPs: 32

Compute Units: 24

Z-Stencil: 128

L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 512 KB

Max. TDP: 250 W

All TeraScale 3 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 Cayman GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 6970	Cayman XT	2 GB	1536	96	32	880 MHz	1375 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6930	Cayman CE	1024 MB	1280	80	32	750 MHz	1200 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6950	Cayman PRO	2 GB	1408	88	32	800 MHz	1250 MHz
AMD FirePro V7900 SDI	Cayman PRO GL	2 GB	1280	80	32	725 MHz	1250 MHz
AMD FirePro V5900	Cayman LE WS	2 GB	512	32	32	600 MHz	500 MHz
AMD FirePro V7900	Cayman PRO GL	2 GB	1280	80	32	725 MHz	1250 MHz