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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 (Feature Level 11_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. It features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.
Further reading: GCN 1.0 Architecture Whitepaper , 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 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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

AMD GPU Architecture History

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
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