The following is a list that contains general information about GPUs and video cards made by AMD , including those made by ATI Technologies before 2006, based on official specifications in table-form.
85-510: Radeon Pro is AMD 's brand of professional oriented GPUs . It replaced AMD's FirePro brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand for mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Pro brand is intended for use in workstations and the running of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC), high-performance computing / GPGPU applications, and
170-529: A 64-bit extension to the x86 instruction set (called x86-64 , AMD64, or x64), the incorporation of an on-chip memory controller, and the implementation of an extremely high-performance point-to-point interconnect called HyperTransport , as part of the Direct Connect Architecture . The technology was initially launched as the Opteron server-oriented processor on April 22, 2003. Shortly thereafter, it
255-491: A 5.3 fold increase in performance on 8K video scrubbing. This SSD storage space can be made available to the operating system or controlled entirely by the GPU. The Fiji-based Radeon Pro SSG card was available as a beta program. In July 2017, AMD released the Vega -based Radeon Pro SSG. The card utilizes 16 GB of second generation ECC high bandwidth memory (HBM2), an upgrade from
340-592: A Service . It was expected to be available in Q4 of that year. Radeon Pro WX series are graphics cards designed specifically for professional applications used in engineering, design, content creation, and science. The first Radeon Pro cards with the WX prefix to be announced were the WX 7100 , the WX 5100 and the WX 4100 in July 2016. These Polaris based cards are once again aimed at the traditional professional market and are set to replace
425-516: A contract with Intel , becoming a licensed second-source manufacturer of 8086 and 8088 processors. IBM wanted to use the Intel 8088 in its IBM PC , but its policy at the time was to require at least two sources for its chips. AMD later produced the Am286 under the same arrangement. In 1984, Intel internally decided to no longer cooperate with AMD in supplying product information to shore up its advantage in
510-491: A fast, cost-effective processor. Finally, in an agreement effective 1996, AMD received the rights to the microcode in Intel's x386 and x486 processor families, but not the rights to the microcode in the following generations of processors. AMD's first in-house x86 processor was the K5 , launched in 1996. The "K" in its name was a reference to Kryptonite , the only substance known to harm comic book character Superman . This itself
595-473: A group of other technology professionals. The company's early products were primarily memory chips and other components for computers. In 1975, AMD entered the microprocessor market, competing with Intel , its main rival in the industry. In the early 2000s, it experienced significant growth and success, thanks in part to its strong position in the PC market and the success of its Athlon and Opteron processors. However,
680-565: A higher TDP , and was able to reach and sustain higher clock speeds, but otherwise the two products have similar hardware specifications. The Pro V series was announced in August 2018 with the Vega-based Radeon Pro V340, a dual-GPU flagship card for use in datacenter virtualization, supporting up to 32 virtual machines at a time, as well as several other potential uses for Computer-aided design , general rendering tasks, and Desktop as
765-693: A joint venture with Siemens , a German engineering conglomerate wishing to enhance its technology expertise and enter the American market. Siemens purchased 20% of AMD's stock, giving the company an infusion of cash to increase its product lines. The two companies also jointly established Advanced Micro Computers (AMC), located in Silicon Valley and in Germany, allowing AMD to enter the microcomputer development and manufacturing field, in particular based on AMD's second-source Zilog Z8000 microprocessors. When
850-459: A large, successful flash memory business, even during the dotcom bust . In 2003, to divest some manufacturing and aid its overall cash flow, which was under duress from aggressive microprocessor competition from Intel, AMD spun off its flash memory business and manufacturing into Spansion , a joint venture with Fujitsu , which had been co-manufacturing flash memory with AMD since 1993. In December 2005, AMD divested itself of Spansion to focus on
935-413: A new socket G34 for dual and quad-socket processors and thus will be marketed as Opteron 61xx series processors. Lisbon uses socket C32 certified for dual-socket use or single socket use only and thus will be marketed as Opteron 41xx processors. Both will be built on a 45 nm SOI process. Following AMD's 2006 acquisition of Canadian graphics company ATI Technologies , an initiative codenamed Fusion
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#17330854869161020-518: A new native socket AM3 , while maintaining backward compatibility with AM2+ , the socket used for the Phenom, and allowing the use of the DDR2 memory that was used with the platform. In April 2010, AMD released a new Phenom II Hexa-core (6-core) processor codenamed " Thuban ". This was a totally new die based on the hexa-core "Istanbul" Opteron processor. It included AMD's "turbo core" technology, which allows
1105-506: A system. The Radeon Pro VII was announced in May 2020, as a professional variant of the Radeon VII . Released in conjunction with the 2019 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro . Two models were announced, the 5300M and the 5500M. Both feature GDDR6 memory interfaces, with 192 GB/s bandwidth. The 5500M supports up to 8 GB of GDDR6 and 4.0 TFLOPS. In June 2020, a new 5600M GPU model with 8 GB of HBM2 memory
1190-498: A wide range of business and consumer markets, including gaming, data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and embedded systems. AMD's main products include microprocessors , motherboard chipsets , embedded processors , and graphics processors for servers , workstations , personal computers, and embedded system applications. The company has also expanded into new markets, such as the data center , gaming , and high-performance computing markets. AMD's processors are used in
1275-408: A wide range of computing devices, including personal computers , servers, laptops , and gaming consoles . While it initially manufactured its own processors, the company later outsourced its manufacturing , after GlobalFoundries was spun off in 2009. Through its Xilinx acquisition in 2022, AMD offers field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products. AMD was founded in 1969 by Jerry Sanders and
1360-526: Is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas . AMD is a hardware and fabless company that designs and develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), system-on-chip (SoC), and high-performance compute solutions. AMD serves
1445-512: Is implemented. The clock frequencies listed here refer to the officially announced clock specifications. The sideport is a dedicated memory bus. It is preferably used for a frame buffer . PCIe 256 Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units The effective data transfer rate of GDDR5
1530-461: Is making ProRender free and available for all graphics hardware. ProRender was released by AMD in June 2016 with support for Blender , 3D Studio Max , SolidWorks , and Maya . API OpenGL 4.5 is supported and 4.6 is in development. API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all with GCN Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 (GCN 2nd Gen. and higher) will be supported with actual drivers in 2018. As with other GPU architectures,
1615-474: Is not that much of a complex task, Project Loom aims to improve render times when tasked with the heavy workload of stitching together multiple high resolution angles to form a 360 degree VR experience, either to headsets or mobile devices. Using AMD's Direct GMA protocol, the software allows Radeon Pro graphics cards to work directly with video capture hardware to stitch together a 30 fps, 360 degree 4k resolution video from 24, 1080p cameras at 60 fps. The software
1700-600: Is particularly well-suited for mission critical workloads and complex scientific modeling because the ECC memory helps correct "single or double bit error as a result of naturally occurring background radiation." Mobile Radeon Pro parts were first revealed with the release of the 2016 update to the Apple 15" MacBook Pro . These appear to be Polaris 11 derived parts with 10-16 4th generation GCN compute units , providing between 1 and 1.86 TFLOPS of performance. Released in conjunction with
1785-448: Is quadruple its nominal clock, instead of double as it is with other DDR memory. The TDP is reference design TDP values from AMD. Different non-reference board designs from vendors may lead to slight variations in actual TDP. All models feature UVD2 and PowerPlay . Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units The clock frequencies may vary in different usage scenarios, as ATI PowerPlay technology
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#17330854869161870-399: Is to be competitive with Nvidia's VRWorks 360 Video SDK, and is reportedly set to be made open-source through GPUOpen. The successor to FireRender, Radeon ProRender works with high-end graphics programs as an OpenCL photorealistic offline 3D renderer and raytracing engine. ProRender aims to compete with programs such as NVIDIA's Iray and other expensive, proprietary solutions. However, AMD
1955-593: The AMD 700 chipset series . The Phenom II came in dual-core, triple-core and quad-core variants, all using the same die, with cores disabled for the triple-core and dual-core versions. The Phenom II resolved issues that the original Phenom had, including a low clock speed, a small L3 cache, and a Cool'n'Quiet bug that decreased performance. The Phenom II cost less but was not performance-competitive with Intel's mid-to-high-range Core 2 Quads. The Phenom II also enhanced its predecessor's memory controller, allowing it to use DDR3 in
2040-641: The Am386 , its clone of the Intel 386 processor. By October of the same year it had sold one million units. In 1993, AMD introduced the first of the Am486 family of processors, which proved popular with a large number of original equipment manufacturers , including Compaq , which signed an exclusive agreement using the Am486. The Am5x86 , another Am486-based processor, was released in November 1995, and continued AMD's success as
2125-546: The DRAM market, and made some headway into the CMOS market, which it had lagged in entering, having focused instead on bipolar chips. AMD had some success in the mid-1980s with the AMD7910 and AMD7911 "World Chip" FSK modem, one of the first multi-standard devices that covered both Bell and CCITT tones at up to 1200 baud half duplex or 300/300 full duplex. Beginning in 1986, AMD embraced
2210-788: The Excavator microarchitecture replaced Piledriver. Expected to be the last microarchitecture of the Bulldozer series, Excavator focused on improved power efficiency. List of AMD graphics processing units#FirePro Workstation series (Wx100) The headers in the table listed below describe the following: Due to conventions changing over time, some numerical definitions such as core config, core clock, performance and memory should not be compared one-to-one across generations. The following tables are for reference use only, and do not reflect actual performance. The following table shows features of AMD / ATI 's GPUs . @165 HZ The following table shows
2295-593: The FirePro Wx100 series and FirePro Wx300 series . These cards, along with the Pro SSG, will use the new, non-toxic and energy efficient YInMn Blue , discovered by Mas Subramanian . This unique aesthetic for the Radeon Pro line will distinguish the professional products from the consumer Radeon series. The smallest card, the half-height WX 4100 , is marketed for use in small form factor workstations . Designed for real-time content engines and CAD and CAM manufacturing,
2380-505: The Supreme Court of California sided with the arbitrator and AMD. In 1990, Intel countersued AMD, renegotiating AMD's right to use derivatives of Intel's microcode for its cloned processors. In the face of uncertainty during the legal dispute, AMD was forced to develop clean room designed versions of Intel code for its x386 and x486 processors, the former long after Intel had released its own x386 in 1985. In March 1991, AMD released
2465-597: The WX 5100 fits in between the WX 4100 and the WX 7100 in terms of performance, with the latter once again marketed with emphasis on the application of VR and other media creation, while claiming to be "The Most Affordable Workstation Solution". In June 2017, AMD announced the addition of the lower power WX 2100 and WX 3100 cards to the Radeon Pro WX series. Both cards are based on the Polaris GPU and are rated at 1.25 TFLOPS . The WX 2100 has 2 GB of GDDR5 SDRAM , while
2550-581: The 2017 Apple iMac refresh, the Radeon Pro 500 series serve as GPUs for the 4K and 5K Retina display iMacs. The 500 series ranges supports 2 to 8 GB of graphics RAM with performance from 1.3 to 5.5 TFLOPS. The Radeon Pro Vega product line of GPUs were first announced in 2017 as a part of Apple's iMac Pro . The two models, Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 64, support 8 and 16 GB of HBM2 memory, respectively. On October 30, 2018, Apple added graphics upgrade options for their 15-inch MacBook Pro lineup consisting Radeon Pro Vega 16 and 20. Derived from Vega 12 GPU that
2635-713: The 9800 SE when unlocked to 8-pixel pipelines with third party driver modifications should function close to a full 9800 Pro. 4 64 Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units 12.8 system Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units 9.6 GDDR3 128 Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Note that ATI X1000 series cards (e.g. X1900) do not have Vertex Texture Fetch, hence they do not fully comply with
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2720-462: The A4 utilizing the base Radeon HD chip and the rest using a Radeon R4 graphics card, with the exception of the highest-model A10 (A10-7300) which uses an R6 graphics card. Bulldozer was AMD's microarchitecture codename for server and desktop AMD FX processors, first released on October 12, 2011. This family 15h microarchitecture is the successor to the family 10h (K10) microarchitecture design. Bulldozer
2805-781: The AMD Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800. On August 3 of the same year, the W7600 and W7500 were announced. On November 13, the W7700 was announced. Most professional compute is done with the help of the Radeon Open Compute and the GPUOpen platforms. At an AMD event in 2016 Project Loom was announced as a collaboration between AMD and Radiant Images. The real-time GPU accelerated photo and video stitching program will complement AMD's virtual reality development platform. While traditional photo stitching
2890-519: The AMD brand name. In October 2008, AMD announced plans to spin off manufacturing operations in the form of GlobalFoundries Inc. , a multibillion-dollar joint venture with Advanced Technology Investment Co. , an investment company formed by the government of Abu Dhabi . The partnership and spin-off gave AMD an infusion of cash and allowed it to focus solely on chip design. To assure the Abu Dhabi investors of
2975-706: The Am2501 logic counter, which was highly successful. Its bestselling product in 1971 was the Am2505, the fastest multiplier available. In 1971, AMD entered the RAM chip market, beginning with the Am3101, a 64-bit bipolar RAM. That year AMD also greatly increased the sales volume of its linear integrated circuits, and by year-end the company's total annual sales reached US$ 4.6 million. AMD went public in September 1972. The company
3060-772: The Fiji-based card's 4 GB of first generation HBM memory. The Vega card also increased the built in solid-state storage to 2 TB. AMD announced in May 2017 the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, for release in June of that year. While not branded as a Pro product, the card is marketed within the Radeon Pro series. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition uses the new "Next-Gen Compute Unit" and 16 GB of HBM2 memory for an expected 13.1 TFLOPs of single precision and 26.2 TFLOPs of half precision performance. Ultimately, two Frontier Edition products were released with either air or liquid cooling . The liquid cooling part supported
3145-545: The Llano. More AMD APUs for laptops running Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS are being used commonly. These include AMD's price-point APUs, the E1 and E2, and their mainstream competitors with Intel's Core i -series: The Vision A- series, the A standing for accelerated. These range from the lower-performance A4 chipset to the A6, A8, and A10. These all incorporate next-generation Radeon graphics cards, with
3230-505: The Spider at 65nm , which was uncompetitive with Intel's smaller and more power-efficient 45nm . In January 2009, AMD released a new processor line dubbed Phenom II , a refresh of the original Phenom built using the 45 nm process. AMD's new platform, codenamed " Dragon ", used the new Phenom II processor, and an ATI R770 GPU from the R700 GPU family, as well as a 790 GX/FX chipset from
3315-516: The United States. AMD rode out the mid-1980s crisis by aggressively innovating and modernizing, devising the Liberty Chip program of designing and manufacturing one new chip or chipset per week for 52 weeks in fiscal year 1986, and by heavily lobbying the U.S. government until sanctions and restrictions were put in place to prevent predatory Japanese pricing. During this time, AMD withdrew from
3400-484: The VS 3.0 model. Instead, they offer a feature called "Render to Vertex Buffer (R2VB)" that provides functionality that is an alternative Vertex Texture Fetch. Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units The clock frequencies may vary in different usage scenarios, as AMD PowerPlay technology
3485-732: The W5700X and W5500X. The first RDNA2 based W6000 series cards were officially announced on June 8, 2021 and launched in Q3 2021, with the AMD Radeon Pro W6800, W6600 and W6600M for mobile. On January 19, 2022, the W6400 was also released. The RDNA2 Radeon Pro W6000X series cards were designed for the 2019 Mac Pro as MPX cards. These cards are the W6900X, W6800X, and W6600X. The first RDNA 3 -based W7000 series cards were officially announced on April 13, 2023, with
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3570-648: The WX 3100 has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory. In September 2017, AMD launched the WX 9100 based on the Vega architecture. The card features 16 GB of ECC HBM2 memory and is rated at 12.29 TFLOPS. As the new flagship of the WX line, it greatly exceeds the performance of the older WX 7100 which is rated at 5.73 TFLOPS. The WX 9100 has ISV (Independent Software Vendor) certified drivers for professional applications including Siemens NX, PTC Creo, Dassault Systèmes CATIA and 3DExperience Platform, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, and Autodesk® Revit®. The WX 9100
3655-546: The brand name Athlon on June 23, 1999. Unlike previous AMD processors, it could not be used on the same motherboards as Intel's, due to licensing issues surrounding Intel's Slot 1 connector, and instead used a Slot A connector, referenced to the Alpha processor bus. The Duron was a lower-cost and limited version of the Athlon (64 KB instead of 256 KB L2 cache) in a 462-pin socketed PGA (socket A) or soldered directly onto
3740-535: The company already had overseas assembly facilities in Penang and Manila , and began construction on a fabrication plant in San Antonio in 1981. In 1980, AMD began supplying semiconductor products for telecommunications, an industry undergoing rapid expansion and innovation. Intel had introduced the first x86 microprocessors in 1978. In 1981, IBM created its PC , and wanted Intel's x86 processors, but only under
3825-466: The company faced challenges in the late 2000s and early 2010s, as it struggled to keep up with Intel in the race to produce faster and more powerful processors. In the late 2010s, AMD regained market share by pursuing a penetration pricing strategy and building on the success of its Ryzen processors, which were considerably more competitive with Intel microprocessors in terms of performance while offering attractive pricing. Advanced Micro Devices
3910-506: The condition that Intel would also provide a second-source manufacturer for its patented x86 microprocessors. Intel and AMD entered into a 10-year technology exchange agreement, first signed in October 1981 and formally executed in February 1982. The terms of the agreement were that each company could acquire the right to become a second-source manufacturer of semiconductor products developed by
3995-451: The creation and running of virtual reality programs and games. The Radeon Pro product line directly competes with Nvidia , i.e. their Quadro (since discontinued) line of professional workstation cards. The first card to be released under the Radeon Pro name was the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016. The card features 2 liquid cooled R9 Nano cores & was marketed strongly for both
4080-467: The cross-licensing agreement would be effectively canceled. Beginning in 1982, AMD began volume-producing second-source Intel-licensed 8086, 8088, 80186, and 80188 processors, and by 1984, its own Am286 clone of Intel's 80286 processor, for the rapidly growing market of IBM PCs and IBM clones . It also continued its successful concentration on proprietary bipolar chips. The company continued to spend greatly on research and development, and created
4165-472: The early computer industry since unreliability in microchips was a distinct problem that customers – including computer manufacturers , the telecommunications industry , and instrument manufacturers – wanted to avoid. In November 1969, the company manufactured its first product: the Am9300, a 4-bit MSI shift register , which began selling in 1970. Also in 1970, AMD produced its first proprietary product,
4250-627: The end of 2014. After the GlobalFoundries spin-off and subsequent layoffs, AMD was left with significant vacant space at 1 AMD Place, its aging Sunnyvale headquarters office complex. In August 2016, AMD's 47 years in Sunnyvale came to a close when it signed a lease with the Irvine Company for a new 220,000 sq. ft. headquarters building in Santa Clara. AMD's new location at Santa Clara Square faces
4335-466: The face of declining sales revenue. The inclusion of AMD chips into the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were later seen as saving AMD from bankruptcy. AMD acquired the low-power server manufacturer SeaMicro in early 2012, with an eye to bringing out an Arm64 server chip. On October 8, 2014, AMD announced that Rory Read had stepped down after three years as president and chief executive officer. He
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#17330854869164420-448: The first server Opteron K10 processors, followed in November by the Phenom processor for desktop. K10 processors came in dual-core, triple-core , and quad-core versions, with all cores on a single die. AMD released a new platform codenamed " Spider ", which used the new Phenom processor, as well as an R770 GPU and a 790 GX/FX chipset from the AMD 700 chipset series . However, AMD built
4505-521: The floating-point performance is dependent on the precision and the GCN generation: For those requiring higher FP64 performance, a form of FP64 distinct from the IEEE double-precision can be emulated with the much faster FP32 operations. The cost is around a ~1/3 performance compared to FP32, much better than what the native support could provide. Advanced Micro Devices Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ( AMD )
4590-595: The footsteps of Robert Noyce (developer of the first silicon integrated circuit at Fairchild in 1959) and Gordon Moore , who together founded the semiconductor company Intel in July 1968. In September 1969, AMD moved from its temporary location in Santa Clara to Sunnyvale, California . To immediately secure a customer base, AMD initially became a second source supplier of microchips designed by Fairchild and National Semiconductor . AMD first focused on producing logic chips. The company guaranteed quality control to United States Military Standard , an advantage in
4675-448: The frame buffer for rendering. This expansion of quick access storage will, therefore, relieve the issue of latency that occurs when a GPU has to retrieve information from a mass storage device via the CPU when a card's limited VRAM is maxed out in heavy workloads. Users will be able to add up to 1 TB of PCIe M.2 NAND flash memory to improve render and scrubbing times. AMD demonstrated
4760-1230: The graphics and compute APIs support across ATI/AMD GPU microarchitectures. Note that a branding series might include older generation chips. 1.3 (GCN 4) Pixel pipelines : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units OpenGL 1.0 (Generic 2D) is provided through software implementations. Pixel pipelines : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units First number indicates cards with 32 MB of memory. Second number indicates cards with 64 MB of memory. First number indicates OEM cards. Second number indicates Retail cards. Pixel pipelines : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units 250 250 4.0 64 Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units 17.28 256 350 (256 MB) 256 22.40 GDDR2 380 340 1520 1520 1520 380 256 21.76 256 Pixel shaders : Vertex Shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units The 256-bit version of
4845-588: The headquarters of archrival Intel across the Bayshore Freeway and San Tomas Aquino Creek . Around the same time, AMD also agreed to sell 1 AMD Place to the Irvine Company. In April 2019, the Irvine Company secured approval from the Sunnyvale City Council of its plans to demolish 1 AMD Place and redevelop the entire 32-acre site into townhomes and apartments. In October 2020, AMD announced that it
4930-455: The marketplace, and delayed and eventually refused to convey the technical details of the Intel 80386 . In 1987, AMD invoked arbitration over the issue, and Intel reacted by canceling the 1982 technological-exchange agreement altogether. After three years of testimony, AMD eventually won in arbitration in 1992, but Intel disputed this decision. Another long legal dispute followed, ending in 1994 when
5015-499: The microarchitecture, and a shift of the target market from mainstream desktop systems to value dual-core desktop systems. In 2008, AMD started to release dual-core Sempron processors exclusively in China, branded as the Sempron 2000 series, with lower HyperTransport speed and smaller L2 cache. AMD completed its dual-core product portfolio for each market segment. In September 2007, AMD released
5100-527: The microprocessor market with the Am9080 , a reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 8080 , and the Am2900 bit-slice microprocessor family. When Intel began installing microcode in its microprocessors in 1976, it entered into a cross-licensing agreement with AMD, which was granted a copyright license to the microcode in its microprocessors and peripherals, effective October 1976. In 1977, AMD entered into
5185-550: The microprocessor market, and Spansion went public in an IPO. On July 24, 2006, AMD announced its acquisition of the Canadian 3D graphics card company ATI Technologies . AMD paid $ 4.3 billion and 58 million shares of its capital stock , for approximately $ 5.4 billion. The transaction was completed on October 25, 2006. On August 30, 2010, AMD announced that it would retire the ATI brand name for its graphics chipsets in favor of
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#17330854869165270-560: The motherboard. Sempron was released as a lower-cost Athlon XP, replacing Duron in the socket A PGA era. It has since been migrated upward to all new sockets, up to AM3 . On October 9, 2001, the Athlon XP was released. On February 10, 2003, the Athlon XP with 512 KB L2 Cache was released. The K8 was a major revision of the K7 architecture, with the most notable features being the addition of
5355-483: The new Bulldozer products were slower than the K10 models they were built to replace. The Piledriver microarchitecture was the 2012 successor to Bulldozer, increasing clock speeds and performance relative to its predecessor. Piledriver would be released in AMD FX, APU, and Opteron product lines. Piledriver was subsequently followed by the Steamroller microarchitecture in 2013. Used exclusively in AMD's APUs, Steamroller focused on greater parallelism. In 2015,
5440-659: The new venture's success, AMD's CEO Hector Ruiz stepped down in July 2008, while remaining executive chairman, in preparation for becoming chairman of GlobalFoundries in March 2009. President and COO Dirk Meyer became AMD's CEO. Recessionary losses necessitated AMD cutting 1,100 jobs in 2009. In August 2011, AMD announced that former Lenovo executive Rory Read would be joining the company as CEO, replacing Meyer. In November 2011, AMD announced plans to lay off more than 10% (1,400) of its employees from across all divisions worldwide. In October 2012, it announced plans to lay off an additional 15% of its workforce to reduce costs in
5525-461: The other; that is, each party could "earn" the right to manufacture and sell a product developed by the other, if agreed to, by exchanging the manufacturing rights to a product of equivalent technical complexity. The technical information and licenses needed to make and sell a part would be exchanged for a royalty to the developing company. The 1982 agreement also extended the 1976 AMD–Intel cross-licensing agreement through 1995. The agreement included
5610-436: The perceived shift toward RISC with their own AMD Am29000 (29k) processor; the 29k survived as an embedded processor . The company also increased its EPROM memory market share in the late 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, AMD was a second-source supplier of Intel x86 processors. In 1991, it introduced its 386-compatible Am386 , an AMD-designed chip. Creating its own chips, AMD began to compete directly with Intel. AMD had
5695-472: The processor to automatically switch from 6 cores to 3 faster cores when more pure speed is needed. The Magny Cours and Lisbon server parts were released in 2010. The Magny Cours part came in 8 to 12 cores and the Lisbon part in 4 and 6 core parts. Magny Cours is focused on performance while the Lisbon part is focused on high performance per watt. Magny Cours is an MCM ( multi-chip module ) with two hexa-core "Istanbul" Opteron parts. This will use
5780-425: The right to invoke arbitration of disagreements, and after five years the right of either party to end the agreement with one year's notice. The main result of the 1982 agreement was that AMD became a second-source manufacturer of Intel's x86 microprocessors and related chips, and Intel provided AMD with database tapes for its 8086 , 80186 , and 80286 chips. However, in the event of a bankruptcy or takeover of AMD,
5865-444: The rights to their Nx series of x86-compatible processors. AMD gave the NexGen design team their own building, left them alone, and gave them time and money to rework the Nx686. The result was the K6 processor, introduced in 1997. Although it was based on Socket 7 , variants such as K6-III /450 were faster than Intel's Pentium II (sixth-generation processor). The K7 was AMD's seventh-generation x86 processor, making its debut under
5950-418: The running and creation of virtual reality content with the slogan "For Gamers Who Create and Creators Who Game". The aesthetics and marketing of the Pro Duo follow that of the rest of the Fury products in the 300 series . In April 2017 AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo for release the following month. The newer version of the Pro Duo utilizes dual GPUs from the Polaris architecture, using
6035-414: The same GPUs as in the WX7100. While this results a smaller number of compute units and lower theoretical performance, it allows for the inclusion of 32 GB GDDR5 SDRAM and a lower board power. Using AMD Radeon's GCN 3 architecture , the Radeon Pro SSG was unveiled in July 2016. SSG stands for S olid S tate G raphics, and the card will couple AMD's Fiji core with solid-state storage to increase
6120-548: The two companies' vision for Advanced Micro Computers diverged, AMD bought out Siemens' stake in the American division in 1979. AMD closed Advanced Micro Computers in late 1981 after switching focus to manufacturing second-source Intel x86 microprocessors. Total sales in fiscal year 1978 topped $ 100 million, and in 1979, AMD debuted on the New York Stock Exchange . In 1979, production also began on AMD's new semiconductor fabrication plant in Austin, Texas ;
6205-499: The world's first 512K EPROM in 1984. That year, AMD was listed in the book The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America , and later made the Fortune 500 list for the first time in 1985. By mid-1985, the microchip market experienced a severe downturn, mainly due to long-term aggressive trade practices ( dumping ) from Japan, but also due to a crowded and non-innovative chip market in
6290-436: Was a clean-sheet design, not a development of earlier processors. The core was specifically aimed at 10–125 W TDP computing products. AMD claimed dramatic performance-per-watt efficiency improvements in high-performance computing (HPC) applications with Bulldozer cores. While hopes were high that Bulldozer would bring AMD to be performance-competitive with Intel once more, most benchmarks were disappointing. In some cases
6375-425: Was a reference to Intel's hegemony over the market, i.e., an anthropomorphization of them as Superman. The number "5" was a reference to the fifth generation of x86 processors; rival Intel had previously introduced its line of fifth-generation x86 processors as Pentium because the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office had ruled that mere numbers could not be trademarked. In 1996, AMD purchased NexGen , specifically for
6460-507: Was a second source for Intel MOS / LSI circuits by 1973, with products such as Am14/1506 and Am14/1507, dual 100-bit dynamic shift registers. By 1975, AMD was producing 212 products – of which 49 were proprietary, including the Am9102 (a static N-channel 1024-bit RAM) and three low-power Schottky MSI circuits: Am25LS07, Am25LS08, and Am25LS09. Intel had created the first microprocessor , its 4-bit 4004 , in 1971. By 1975, AMD entered
6545-433: Was acquiring Xilinx , one of the market leaders in field programmable gate arrays and complex programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs) in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition was completed in February 2022, with an estimated acquisition price of $ 50 billion. In October 2023, AMD acquired an open-source AI software provider, Nod.ai, to bolster its AI software ecosystem. In January 2024, AMD announced it
6630-480: Was announced to integrate a CPU and GPU together on some of AMD's microprocessors, including a built in PCI Express link to accommodate separate PCI Express peripherals, eliminating the northbridge chip from the motherboard. The initiative intended to move some of the processing originally done on the CPU (e.g. floating-point unit operations) to the GPU, which is better optimized for some calculations. The Fusion
6715-523: Was discontinuing the production of all complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) acquired through Xilinx. In March 2024, a rally in semiconductor stocks pushed AMD's valuation above $ 300B for the first time. In July 2024 AMD announced that it would acquire the Finnish-based artificial intelligence startup company Silo AI in a $ 665 million all-cash deal in an attempt to better compete with AI chip market leader Nvidia . In February 1982, AMD signed
6800-431: Was formally incorporated by Jerry Sanders , along with seven of his colleagues from Fairchild Semiconductor , on May 1, 1969. Sanders, an electrical engineer who was the director of marketing at Fairchild, had, like many Fairchild executives, grown frustrated with the increasing lack of support, opportunity, and flexibility within the company. He later decided to leave to start his own semiconductor company, following
6885-530: Was incorporated into a product for desktop PCs, branded Athlon 64 . On April 21, 2005, AMD released the first dual-core Opteron , an x86-based server CPU. A month later, it released the Athlon 64 X2 , the first desktop-based dual-core processor family. In May 2007, AMD abandoned the string "64" in its dual-core desktop product branding, becoming Athlon X2, downplaying the significance of 64-bit computing in its processors. Further updates involved improvements to
6970-565: Was later renamed the AMD APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). Llano was AMD's first APU built for laptops. Llano was the second APU released, targeted at the mainstream market. It incorporated a CPU and GPU on the same die, as well as northbridge functions, and used " Socket FM1 " with DDR3 memory. The CPU part of the processor was based on the Phenom II "Deneb" processor. AMD suffered an unexpected decrease in revenue based on production problems for
7055-590: Was only used on Apple laptops, both GPU features a 4 GB HBM2 memory stack and performance up to 3.3 TFLOPS. The second-generation, 7 nm Radeon Pro Vega II was announced in 2019 as part of Apple's third-generation Mac Pro desktop computer. The Pro Vega II supports 32 GB of HBM2 memory, while the Pro Vega II Duo combines two Vega GPUs and supports 64 GB of HBM2 memory. The Mac Pro supports up to two Pro Vega II or Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards, allowing up to four Vega GPUs and 128 GB of HBM2 memory to be used in
7140-399: Was quietly released. The Radeon Pro W5700, which is based on RDNA Architecture for desktop workstations, was officially released on November 19, 2019. The smaller model Radeon Pro W5500 was released in February 2020. The RDNA Radeon Pro W5000X series cards were designed for the 2019 Mac Pro as MPX cards, which interface through PCIe and a second proprietary Apple connector. These cards are
7225-706: Was succeeded by Lisa Su , a key lieutenant who had been chief operating officer since June. On October 16, 2014, AMD announced a new restructuring plan along with its Q3 results. Effective July 1, 2014, AMD reorganized into two business groups: Computing and Graphics, which primarily includes desktop and notebook processors and chipsets, discrete GPUs, and professional graphics; and Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom, which primarily includes server and embedded processors, dense servers, semi-custom SoC products (including solutions for gaming consoles ), engineering services, and royalties. As part of this restructuring, AMD announced that 7% of its global workforce would be laid off by
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