AMD Malta
Malta
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Block Diagram
CU Diagram
LDS Diagram
AMD's Malta GPU uses the GCN 1.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 365 mm² and a transistor count of 4,313 million it is a large chip. Malta supports DirectX 12.0 (Feature Level 11_1). It features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.
Further reading:
GCN 1.0 Architecture Whitepaper 
, Southern Islands Instruction Set Architecture
, Southern Islands Instruction Set Architecture Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- Malta
- Architecture
- GCN 1.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 4,313 million
- Density
- 11.8M / mm²
- Die Size
- 365 mm²
- Released
- Apr 24th, 2013
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12.0 (11_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.1.101
- Shader Model
- 5.1
- Compute
- GFX6
- ROCm
- No
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 2048
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 32
- Compute Units
- 32
- Z-Stencil
- 128
- ACEs
- 2
- GEs
- 2
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB per CU
- L2 Cache
- 768 KB
- Max. TDP
- 375 W
All GCN 1.0 GPUs
Graphics cards using the AMD Malta GPU
| Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AMD Radeon HD 7990
|
Malta XT | 3 GB | 2048 | 128 | 32 | 950 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
|
Malta XT | 3 GB | 2048 | 128 | 32 | 950 MHz | 1000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
Malta GPU Notes
| Architecture Codename: Southern Islands Chip Variant: Tahiti CLRX Version: GCN 1.0 Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx600) Display Core Engine: 6.0 Unified Video Decoder: 3.2 Video Compression Engine: 1.0 Exact same as Tahiti, just sorted for low leakage Exact Transistor Count: 4,312,711,873 |