AMD Banks
Banks PRO
Block Diagram
CU Diagram
LDS Diagram
AMD's Banks 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. Banks supports DirectX 12.0 (Feature Level 11_1). It features 320 shading units, 20 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.
Further reading:
GCN 1.0 Architecture Whitepaper 
, Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture
, Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- Banks
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 690 million
- Density
- 12.3M / mm²
- Die Size
- 56 mm²
- Released
- Apr 18th, 2017
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12.0 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.1.125
- Shader Model
- 5.1
- Compute
- GFX6
- ROCm
- No
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 320
- TMUs
- 20
- ROPs
- 8
- Compute Units
- 5
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB per CU
- L2 Cache
- 128 KB
- Max. TDP
- 50 W
- ACEs
- 2
- GEs
- 1
All GCN 1.0 GPUs
AMD GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the AMD Banks GPU
| Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | GPU Clock | Memory Clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon 520 Mobile | Banks PRO | 2 GB | 320 | 20 | 8 | 1030 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| AMD Radeon 520 Mobile | Banks PRO | 2 GB | 320 | 20 | 8 | 1030 MHz | 1125 MHz |
| AMD Radeon 610 Mobile | Banks PRO | 2 GB | 320 | 20 | 8 | 1030 MHz | 1125 MHz |
Banks GPU Notes
| Architecture Codename: Sea Islands Chip Variant: Hainan CLRX Version: GCN 1.0 Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx601) Display Core Engine: No Support Unified Video Decoder: No Support Video Compression Engine: No Support |