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
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ALWAYS AHEAD of the Curve Lead in Innovation Industry Standards
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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
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ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 More Performance When You Need it… AMD ZeroCore Power Technology
Energy Saved
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Portal 2 Unleashed Warhammer 40,000: Space Call of Duty 2 Dungeon Defenders GTR Evolution Mines of Moria, the Portal StarCraft II: Wings of Marine Call of Duty 4 Modern Dungeon Siege III Guardians of Graxia Lord of the Rings: Pound of ground Liberty Titan Quest Warfare Dungeons and Dragons Guild Wars - Eye of the Conquest, The Prince of Persia - The Starship Troopers Tom Clancy's EndWar Call of Duty World at War Online North Lost Horizon Sands of Time Stormrise Tom Clancy's HAWX 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops Dungeons Guild Wars: Factions Lost Planet 2 Prince of Persia - Warrior Street Fighter IV Tom Clancy's HAWX Call of Duty: Modern Guild Wars: Nightfall Within Nearly 600 titles supported! HD3D Ecosystem: 3D Monitors
Samsung SA700 Samsung SA750 Samsung TA950 LG D2342P
Samsung SA950 Samsung TA750 LG D237IPS Fast HDMI for Stereo 3D
AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series are the first GPUs to support 3GHz HDMI with frame packing support for Stereo 3D 1080p 60 Hz/Eye = 120Hz Total
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1 Second (60 Packed Frames)
Faster frame rates for smooth gameplay Ultra High Resolution Support
4k displays today Next-generation 4k displays require multiple inputs will only require one input
DP1.1 DP1.2 HBR2 DP1.1 OR
HDMI 1.4a 3GHz
DVI DVI DVI DVI
The AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series are the first GPUs ready for current and next-generation displays Summary
AMD Eyefinity technology “2.0” – Uniting AMD Eyefinity, AMD HD3D & AMD CrossFire™ technologies – Positional Audio With DDMA – DisplayPort 1.2 & Fast HDMI – …And more! AMD APP ACCELERATION
December 2011 | AMD Confidential | Under NDA AMD App Acceleration & Radeon™ HD 7900 Series: A Comprehensive User Experience
PC best in class Dedicated hardware HD playback quality Faster than HD video accelerators real-time Enhanced HD video Productivity conversion 1
Enhanced compute hardware & software
Accelerated HD Ecosystem of applications enabled Video Editing with AMD APP SDK AMD’s Unified Video decoder Comprehensive Formats Support >> Flexible Playback Engine
UVD UVD UVD 1st generation 2nd generation AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 H.264 / AVCHD H.264 / AVCHD H.264 / AVCHD
VC-1 / WMV profile D VC-1 / WMV profile D VC-1 / WMV profile D Video MPEG-2 MPEG-2 Formats Multi-View Codec (MVC)
MPEG-4 / DivX
Bitstream decode Bitstream decode Bitstream decode
Picture-in-Picture Picture-in-Picture Features Dual stream HD+SD Dual stream HD+SD
Dual stream HD+HD Introducing AMD’s Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Core Multi-stream hardware H.264 HD Encoder functionality Power efficient & Faster than real-time1 1080p @60fps Two encode modes: full fixed & hybrid (with compute)
Quality 4:2:0 color sampling video features Optimizations for scenes changes (games & video) Variable compression quality
Interfacing Audio / Video multiplexing features Input from frame buffer for Transcoding & Video Conferencing Input from GPU display engine for Wireless Display Encode with VCE – Full Mode Faster than Real-Time ,1 Low Latency, Power-Efficient HD Encode
CPU Bitrate Feedback Rate Control GPU
Current frame (Uncompressed YUV420)
Forward Transform (e.g. FDCT)
Reference frames in the Intra group of pictures (GOP) Prediction Quantization Entropy 0100110010110 10111100… Encode
Motion H.264 Estimation Compressed Stream VCE Encode with VCE – Hybrid Mode More Parallelism >> scalable Pipeline
CPU Bitrate Feedback Rate Control GPU
Current frame (Uncompressed YUV420)
Forward Forward transformForward transform (e.g.Transform FDCT) (e.g. FDCT) (e.g. FDCT)
Reference frames in the IntraIntra group of pictures (GOP) predictionIntra predictionPrediction Quantization QuantizationQuantization Entropy 0100110010110 10111100… Encode
MotionMotion H.264 Motion Compressed estimationestimation Estimation Stream Compute VCE
53 | AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series Graphics | December 2011 | Confidential – NDA Required TotalMedia Theatre 5.2
Exciting pre-announcement of the new updater
New design; new concept – Alpha blended UI – Media Management for your local and online media – Movie metadata search – Smart menu for DVD movies & video clips – Sim3D® - real-time 2D-to-3D conversion
Optimized for AMD Radeon™ HD graphics – MVC H/W acceleration – Blu-ray 3D™ with HDMI 1.4 – UVD support – HW accelerated on MPEG-4 ASP – OpenCL SimHD® – Rewritten with AMD APP SDK Utilizing AMD Video Codec Engine (VCE) technology in Transcoder Pipeline
Encode Decode SimHD ME / IDCT / MC Entropy (VCE) (UVD) (OpenCL) (OpenCL) +
Full encoding (VCE)
Hybrid encode mode: On high-end graphics, use OpenCL for ME / IDCT / MC and VCE for entropy encoding. Faster than realtime encoding. VCE full encode mode: On low-end graphics, use VCE for the entire encoding. Lower power consumption compare to CPU encoding. Media Processing Instructions
SAD = Sum of Absolute Differences
Critical operation for many video & image processing Closest match algorithms – Motion detection 3 5 5 5 9 3 1 4 4 SAD0 7 = 1 2 SAD9 6 =6 – Gesture recognition 2 5 5 4 2 5229 7 1 5593 2 4 0 7 1 – Video & image search 8 1 1 7 6 8 3 0 7 5 9 4 3 2 9 9 3 0 7 1 – Depth extraction 4 1 3 1 7 SAD4 5 =8 2 SAD2 2 =0 – Computer vision 5 0584 0 8 2453 9 9 2 4 7 1 0 3 6 SAD (4x1) and QSAD (4x4) instructions – Evaluate up to 64 pixels per CU per clock cycle
Maskable MQSAD instruction – Allows background pixels to be ignored AMD Radeon HD 7970 can evaluate – Accelerated isolation of moving objects >1.8 Terapixels/sec AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, QSAD in Motion Estimation of Steady Video
Used in Steady Video 2.0, this instruction enables unprecedented acceleration to detect motion in the video
To detect random shifts +/-32 pixels in any possible direction: − The number of SADs/sec for 1920x1088@60Hz = 513,382,809,600 − Over 513 billion calculations − All processing must happen in few millisecond to keep real-time playback
AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series: new QSAD instruction can deliver 10x speed-up over CPU for motion estimation3 allowing time for more sophisticated processing for best in class video quality Enhanced Productivity with AMD App Acceleration
Browsers & Plug-ins Consumer Video Editing
Microsoft Internet Mozilla Google Explorer Firefox Chrome Corel VideoStudio CyberLink Adobe Premiere PowerDirector Elements Pro
Adobe Flash Microsoft Player Silverlight
Sony Vegas Movie Roxio Creator Microsoft Windows Productivity & Mapping Studio Live
Popular Media Players
Google Bing Maps Microsoft Earth PowerPoint ArcSoft TotalMedia Corel CyberLink Roxio Theatre WinDVD PowerDVD CinePlayer Introducing WinZip 16.5
The fastest, most trusted method for securing, storing and sharing files is about to get a lot faster
Working closely with AMD, WinZip is using OpenCL to accelerate the WinZip engine – Accelerating Deflate compression – Inflate decompression, and – AES encryption
WinZip 16.5 is being optimized for AMD Fusion and Radeon Graphics – Fast memory access on Fusion APUs – Massively parallel operation favors the most powerful discrete graphics – OpenCL allows workload to be spread across CPU, integrated GPU, and discrete graphics AMD App Acceleration & Radeon™ HD 7900 Series: A Comprehensive User Experience
PC best in class Dedicated hardware HD playback quality Faster than HD video accelerators real-time Enhanced HD video Productivity conversion 1
Enhanced compute hardware & software
Accelerated HD Ecosystem of applications enabled Video Editing with AMD APP SDK