Professional Documents
Culture Documents
series
Cards
Entry-level Radeon R5 210
Radeon R5 220
Radeon R5 230
Radeon R5 235
API support
Direct3D Direct3D 12.0 (feature
level 12_0) (GCN
version) [1]
Shader Model 6.0
OpenCL OpenCL 2.0 (GCN
version) [2]
OpenGL OpenGL 4.5 [3] [4] [5] [6]
Vulkan Vulkan 1.1 (GCN only)
[7] [8] [9]
SPIR-V
History
Predecessor Radeon HD 7000 series
Radeon HD 8000 series
Successor Radeon R5/R7/R9 300
series
Release
The Rx 200 series was announced on
September 25, 2013, at the AMD GPU14
Tech Day event.[11] Non-disclosure
agreements were lifted on October 15,
except for the R9 290X, and pre-orders
opened on October 3.[12]
Architecture
This article is about all products under the
AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series brand.
Multi-monitor support
AMD TrueAudio
CrossFire Compatibility
Desktop models
Radeon R9 295X2
Radeon R9 290X
A R9 290X by Sapphire
Radeon R9 290
Radeon R9 285
Radeon R9 280
Radeon R7 260X
Radeon R7 250
Chipset table
Desktop models
Model Architecture Trans
Launch
(Codename) (Fab)
Radeon
R5 210 [27] Unknown
(Cedar)
Radeon
R5 220 [27]
Unknown
(Caicos
Pro)
Radeon
Terascale 2
R5 230 [28]
April 3, 2014 [29] (40 nm)
(Caicos
Pro)
Radeon
Unknown
R5 235 [27]
(Caicos XT)
Radeon
R5 235X [27] Unknown
(Caicos XT)
Radeon
R5 240 [27] November 1, 2013 [32]
(Oland)
Radeon
R7 240 [33] August 8, 2013
(Oland Pro)
Radeon
R7 250 [33] August 8, 2013
(Oland XT) GCN 1 st gen
(28 nm)
Radeon
R7 250E [34]
December 21, 2013
(Cape Verde
Pro)
Radeon
R7 250X [33]
February 10, 2014
(Cape Verde
XT)
Radeon
R7 260 [33] December 17, 2013
(Bonaire)
GCN 2 nd gen
Radeon
(28 nm)
R7 260X [33]
August 8, 2013
(Bonaire
XTX)
Radeon
R7 265 [33]
February 13, 2014
(Pitcairn
Pro)
Radeon
R9 270 [35]
November 13, 2013
(Pitcairn
XT)
Radeon
GCN 1 st gen
R9 270X) [35]
August 8, 2013 (28 nm)
(Pitcairn
XT)
Radeon
R9 280 [35] March 4, 2014
(Tahiti Pro)
Radeon
R9 280X [35]
August 8, 2013
(Tahiti
XTL)[36]
Radeon
GCN 3 rd gen
R9 285 [35] September 2, 2014
(28 nm)
(Tonga Pro)
Radeon
R9 290 [35] November 5, 2013
(Hawaii
Pro)
Mobile models
Core
Model Architecture
Launch
(Codename) (Fab) Config [e]
Radeon
R5 M230 2014 320:20:8:5
(Jet Pro)
Radeon
June
R5 M255 320:20:8:5
2014
(Jet Pro)
Radeon
June
R7 M260 384:24:8:6
2014
(Topaz)
Radeon
June
R7 M260X 384:24:8:6
2014
(Opal)
Radeon
May
R9 M265X 640:40:16:10
2014
(Venus Pro)
Radeon
May
R9 M270X 640:40:16:10
2014
(Venus XT)
Radeon
R9 M275X May
640:40:16:10
(Venus 2014
XTX)
Radeon
February GCN 2 nd gen
R9 M280X 896:56:16:14
2015 (28 nm)
(Saturn XT)
Radeon
R9 M290X May GCN 1 st gen
2014 (28 nm) 1280:80:32:20
(Neptune
XT)
Radeon
R9 M295X GCN 3 rd gen
2014 2048:128:32:32
(Amethyst (28 nm)
XT)
AMD support
Instruction set
9.0 9.0b
Direct3D 7.0 8.1 11 11
(9_2) (9_2)
Vulkan
OpenCL N/A
HSA
Power saving ?
Video decoder
N/A
ASIC
Video encoding
ASIC
TrueAudio
FreeSync
HDCP [e]
PlayReady [e]
Max. resolution
/drm/radeon [g]
/drm/amdgpu [g]
See also
AMD FirePro
AMD FireMV
AMD FireStream
List of AMD graphics processing units
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External links
TechPowerUp! GPU Database
AMD Radeon R9 Series Graphics
AMD Radeon R7 Series Graphics