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List of AMD graphics processing units

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2468661
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The following is a list that contains general information about GPUs, and other video cards, made by AMD, including those made by ATI Technologies before 2006, based on official specifications in table-form.

Field explanations

The headers in the table listed below describe the following:

Model – The marketing name for the GPU assigned by AMD/ATI. Note that ATI trademarks have been replaced by AMD trademarks starting with the Radeon HD 6000 series for desktop and AMD FirePro series for professional graphics.

Codename – The internal engineering codename for the GPU.

Launch – Date of release for the GPU.

Architecture – The microarchitecture used by the GPU.

Fab – Fabrication process. Average feature size of components of the GPU.

Transistors – Number of transistors on the die.

Die size – Physical surface area of the die.

Core config – The layout of the graphics pipeline, in terms of functional units.

Core clock – The reference base and boost (if available) core clock frequency.

Fillrate

Pixel - The rate at which pixels can be rendered by the raster operators to a display. Measured in pixels/s.

Texture - The rate at which textures can be mapped by the texture mapping units onto a polygon mesh.

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