AMD Broadway

Broadway

Block Diagram

AMD's Broadway GPU uses the TeraScale 2 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 166 mm² and a transistor count of 1,040 million it is a small chip. Broadway supports DirectX 11.2 (Feature Level 11_0). It features 800 shading units, 40 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.

Further reading: Evergreen Series Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

GPU Name: Broadway

Architecture: TeraScale 2

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 1,040 million

Density: 6.3M / mm²

Die Size: 166 mm²

Released: Jan 4th, 2011

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.2 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.4

OpenCL: 1.2

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 5.0

Compute: GFX4

Render Config

Shading Units: 800

TMUs: 40

ROPs: 16

Compute Units: 14

Z-Stencil: 40

L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 256 KB

Max. TDP: 100 W

All TeraScale 2 GPUs

Graphics cards using the AMD Broadway GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand	Broadway XTX	1024 MB	800	40	16	800 MHz	1100 MHz
AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand	Broadway XT	1024 MB	800	40	16	800 MHz	1000 MHz

Broadway GPU Notes

Architecture Codename: Evergreen
Chip Variant: Juniper
Graphics/Compute: GFX4
Display Core Engine: 4.0
Unified Video Decoder: 2.3