Radeon
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ATI Radeon is a brand of graphics processing units (GPU) manufactured by ATI Technologies and subsequently AMD. It is the successor to the Rage line of products. ATI Radeon is available in different generations, differentiated by the DirectX generation they support.
Different Generations of ATI Radeon
R100: This is the first graphics processor fully compliant with DirectX 7.0. Introduced in 2000, R100 used the HyperZ technology and yielded large gains in bandwidth and fill-rate efficiency. The final release was Radeon 7500.
R200: This series supports DirectX 8.1. This design included ATI’s first programmable shader architecture and included more advanced pixel shader 1.4. This series includes Radeon 8500 - 9200, 9250.
R300: Supports ATI’s DirectX 9.0 technology. It also incorporated pixel shader. Includes Radeon 9500 - 9800, X300 - X600, X1050.
R420: This series included extension to the Shader Model 2 feature-set. This technology is used in Radeon X700 - X850.
R520: Supports ATI’s DirectX 9.0c series of graphics cards, with complete Shader Model 3.0 support. Other enhancements include the floating-point render target technology necessary for HDR rendering with anti-aliasing. Cards released include X1300 - X1950.
R600: This is the first series of ATI Radeon to support Direct3D 10.0 specifications. It also employs unified shader technology. Important releases of this technology are HD 2400, HD 2600 and HD 2900. The HD 3000 series, which supports DirectX 10.1, is also included in this category.
R700: Important innovations include improvements to power consumption and GDDR5 support for the high-end RV770 chip. HD 4850 (GDDR3 memory) and HD 4870 (GDDR5 memory) are included in this series.
R800: This is ATI’s latest series expected to be launched on a 40 nm fabrication process, with 2000 stream processors and compatible with the next major version of the DirectX API, DirectX 11.
