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AMD Broadway

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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). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. 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
L1 Cache
8 KB per CU
L2 Cache
256 KB
Max. TDP
100 W
Z-Stencil
40

All TeraScale 2 GPUs

AMD GPU Architecture History

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