ATI Cypress

Cypress

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Setup

ATI's Cypress GPU uses the TeraScale 2 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 334 mm² and a transistor count of 2,154 million it is a large chip. Cypress supports DirectX 11.2 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 can be used. It features 1600 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.

Further reading: Evergreen Series Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

GPU Name: Cypress

Architecture: TeraScale 2

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 2,154 million

Density: 6.4M / mm²

Die Size: 334 mm²

Released: Sep 23rd, 2009

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: 1600

TMUs: 80

ROPs: 32

Compute Units: 20

Z-Stencil: 40

L1 Cache: 8 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 512 KB

Max. TDP: 250 W

All TeraScale 2 GPUs

ATI GPU Architecture History

1986-1992 Wonder
1992-1997 Mach
1996 Rage 2
1997-1999 Rage 3
1998-1999 Rage 4
1999-2001 IBM
2000-2007 Rage 6
2000 Rage 5
2001-2006 Rage 7
2002-2007 Rage 8
2003-2008 Rage 9
2004-2008 R400
2005-2007 R500
2005-2013 TeraScale
2009-2015 TeraScale 2

Graphics cards using the ATI Cypress GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
ATI Radeon HD 5830	Cypress LE	1024 MB	1120	56	16	800 MHz	1000 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5850	Cypress PRO	1024 MB	1440	72	32	725 MHz	1000 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5870	Cypress XT	1024 MB	1600	80	32	850 MHz	1200 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6	Cypress XT	2 GB	1600	80	32	850 MHz	1200 MHz
ATI FirePro V7800	Cypress PRO GL	2 GB	1440	72	32	700 MHz	1000 MHz
ATI FirePro V9800	Cypress XT GL	4 GB	1600	80	32	850 MHz	1150 MHz
ATI FirePro V8800	Cypress XT GL	2 GB	1600	80	32	825 MHz	1150 MHz
ATI FirePro V9800P	Cypress XT GL	4 GB	1600	80	32	850 MHz	1150 MHz
ATI FirePro V7800P	Cypress PRO GL	2 GB	1440	72	32	700 MHz	1000 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition	Cypress XT	1024 MB	1600	80	32	850 MHz	1195 MHz