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AMD RADEON™ HD 7900 SERIES GRAPHICS Codename “Southern Islands” December 2011 AMD Confidential – NDA Required The demand for graphics horsepower… IS ON THE RISE . The demand for graphics horsepower… IS ON THE RISE . Significant Growth in PC GAMING Games Are M ore Visually INTENSIVE High-Definition Graphics AND BEYOND Increasing Demand for POWER EFFICIENCY Major Shift to COMPUTE Lead in Innovation Process Technology 90nm 80nm 65nm 55nm 40nm 28nm ALWAYS AHEAD of the Curve Lead in Innovation Industry Standards ) / s b ( G t h i d w d n a B FIRST to PCI -E Gen3 Lead in Innovation Industry Standards First to * ALWAYS AHEAD of the Curve AMD’s “Southern Islands” Product Line “Tahiti” “Pitcairn” “Cape Verde” Enthusiast Gamers Hardcore Gamers Performance Gamers The World’s Most The “Sweet Spot” New Paradigm of Powerful and For Hardcore Gamers Performance Advanced GPU* and Power Graphics AMD AMD App Core Next Eyefinity 2.0 Acceleration “SOUTHERN ISLANDS” Graphics AMD AMD App Core Next Eyefinity 2.0 Acceleration Revolutionary DDM Audio VCE Architecture 5 x 1 Landscape Designed for Compute 28nm Process AMD Eyefinity AMD Steady Video 2.0 Technology Technology with AMD Improved UVD PCI-E® Gen3 HD3D Technology New software Power Management New Bezel partnerships Compensation AMD PowerTune Technology Custom Resolutions AMD ZeroCore Power Technology “SOUTHERN ISLANDS” Introducing the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series GPUs NEVER SETTLE AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 World’s Fastest and Most Advanced GPU based on leading-edge 28nm technology* Brand new revolutionary architecture with significantly more compute power than AMD Radeon™ HD 6970 3GB GDDR5 memory for maximum performance in ultra-high resolution and multi-monitor gaming Stream Processors 2,048 Shader Architecture Graphics Core Next Memory Size / Bus Width 3GB GDDR5 / 384-bit Board Power Connectors 6pin + 8pin Display Outputs DVI, HDMI, 2x mDP Maximum Displays 6 Display Configurations Dual BIOS Toggle Switch Full slot for improved cooling Setting 1: unprotected HDMI-to-DVI and Active mDP Setting 2: factory defaults included Improved Fan Design Heat Sink Wider fan with new blades 6th generation vapour chamber Higher CFM Improved cooling and acoustics Improved cooling and acoustics AMD PowerTune Technology Maximum Board Power Untapped Performance r e w o P d r a o B s i c h p r a G ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 More Performance When You Need it… AMD ZeroCore Power Technology Energy Saved r e w o P d r a o B s i c h p r a G ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 More Energy Savings When You Don’t Lower Long Idle Power with AMD ZeroCore Power Technology 55nm Jun. 2008 40nm 90 W Sept. 2009 40nm 27 W Oct. 2010 24 W 28nm Dec. 2011 r e w < 3 W o P l e I d d r a o B AMD ZeroCore Power Technology with AMD CrossFire™ Technology Energy Saved r e w o P d r a o B s i c h p r a G l e I d 4 x Competitive Solution 4 x AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 in AMD CrossFire™ Technology Mode Maximum Performance with Maximum Energy Savings 1,100 MHz 1,050 MHz 1 GHz 975 MHz 950 MHz 925 MHz GPU Clock Overclocking headroom – 1GHz and Beyond Summary AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 is the World’s Most Powerful and Advanced GPU This is the Card Enthusiasts Have Been Waiting For AMD is Redefining Efficiency with AMD PowerTune Technology and AMD ZeroCore Power Technology We Have Many More Exciting “Southern Islands” Products to Come GRAPHICS CORE NEXT As Featured in the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPU Evolution 1ST ERA: 2ND ERA: 3RD ERA: Fixed Function Simple Shaders Graphics Parallel Core 3D Geometry Transformation Memory Interface VLIW5 B r a n c 8 Vertex Pipes h FMAD+ U Stream Special n i ProcessingUnits Functions t General Purpose Setup Engine Registers Lighting Pixel Shader Core VLIW4 B r a n c h U Stream n i 16 Pixel Pipes Processing Units t General Purpose Registers Graphics Core Next Architecture A new GPU design for a new era of computing Cutting-edge graphics performance and features High compute density with multi-tasking Built for power efficiency Optimized for heterogeneous computing Enabling the Fusion System Architecture Amazing scalability and flexibility AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series – Codename “Tahiti” Graphics Core Next Architecture Up to 32 Compute Units Dual Geometry Engines 8 Render Back-ends – 32 color ROPs per clock – 128 Z/stencil ROPs per clock Up to 768KB read/write L2 cache Fast 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface – Over 264 GB/sec memory bandwidth PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface 4.3 billion 28nm transistors Utilization and Efficiency Higher utilization = higher performance per sq.mm SmallptGPU AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon HD 7970 LuxMark SHA256 AES256 Mandelbrot DP 0x 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x Tessellation Performance 4,5x S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: 4,0x Call of Pripyat 3,5x t e Unigine Heaven a 3,0x R n o 2,5x t i a l Lost Planet 2 e s 2,0x s e T 1,5x Total War: Shogun 2 1,0x 0,5x Crysis 2 0,0x 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 Tessellation Factor Relative Performance AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 AMD Radeon™ HD 6970 Partially Resident Textures (PRT) Local graphics memory behaves like a hardware-managed cache – Texture data can be streamed in on demand Improved memory efficiency and image quality with very large, detailed textures – Hardware accelerated mapping & filtering for Virtual Texturing or “MegaTexture” – Texture sizes up to 32 TB (16k x 16k x 8k x 128-bit) – Expected to feature in next-gen game engines – High value to apps working with very large data sets Texture Filtering Quality Improved anisotropic filtering algorithm – New filter kernel weights – Reduces shimmering artifacts seen in high frequency texture details, without blurring – Enabled automatically – No performance cost – Fully angle invariant Images captured from 3DCenter Filter Tester Version 1.1 by Axel Gneiting AMD EYEFINITY “2.0” TECHNOLOGY December 2011 | AMD Confidential | Under NDA Display Technology Leadership Multi-Display Industry Open Leadership Standards Stereo 3D Continued evolution of AMD Stereo 3D done right First to DisplayPort 1.2 Eyefinity technology with AMD’s open Certification & Fast HDMI and the ecosystem ecosystem initiative Display Technology Leadership DP1.2 HDMI1.4 MST HUB DP / VGA / DVI / HDMI DP / VGA / DVI / HDMI DP / VGA / DVI / HDMI HDMI 1 2 3 cable 4 5 6 Stereo 3D Color Correction Uniting AMD Eyefinity & HD3D Technologies First single GPU to drive three Stereo 3D displays using new DisplayPort 3D monitors Next level of gaming immersion Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio Today’s GPUs support only one audio stream at a time Audio Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio The AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 is the first GPU that can simultaneously output multiple, independent audio streams Audio DDM Audio : Directional Audio Audio seamlessly follows the video Audio DDM Audio : Multi-display Video Conferencing Affordable multi-display, multi-audio conferencing for consumers Audio Evolution of AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology MAR, 2010 APR, 2011 Bezel Compensation FEB, 2010 AMD Catalyst™ 11.4: Per-Display Color Adjust JUL, 2010 Revamped AMD Catalyst™ 10.2: Multiple Display Groups AMD Catalyst™ 10.7 configuration UI AMD CrossFire™ Support Improved Display Config AMD CrossFireX™ Switching in Portrait Modes SEP, 2009 MAY, 2011 AMD HydraVision™ AMD Eyefinity enhancements AMD Catalyst™ 11.5 APR, 2010 Technology More AMD Launch ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 HydraVision™ E6 Edition released Enhancements 2009 2010 2011 AMD Eyefinity Technology “2.0”: New Features OCT 2011 AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 New grid configurations Flexible Bezel Comp 16k x 16k support Up to 16k U p t o 1 6 k AMD Eyefinity Technology “2.0”: New Features Dec 2011 and Beyond AMD Catalyst™ 11.12, 12.1, 12.2 AMD Eyefinity + AMD HD3D technologies Custom Resolutions Preset Manager Improvements Task Bar Positioning Before After After AMD HD3D Technology Game Support Native 3D games supported Supported games through DDD 80 Days Warfare 2 Dynasty Warriors 6 Guild Wars Lost Planet Extreme Prince of Persia: The Strong Bad Episode 1 - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell A.R.E.S.: Extinction Call of Duty: Modern Dynasty Warriors Online Guitar Hero 3 Condition Colonies Forgotten Sands Homestar Ruiner Conviction Agenda Warfare 3 Earth 2160 Gun 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