Not to be confused with the Radeon RX 6000 series, a newer series of GPUs developed by AMD.
AMD Radeon HD 6000 series
Release date
October 22, 2010; 13 years ago (October 22, 2010)
Codename
Northern Islands Vancouver
Architecture
TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3
Transistors
292M 40 nm (Cedar)
370M 40 nm (Caicos)
716M 40 nm (Turks)
1.040M 40 nm (Juniper)
1.700M 40 nm (Barts)
2.640M 40 nm (Cayman)
2x 2.640M 40 nm (Antilles)
Cards
Entry-level
64xx - 66xx
Mid-range
67xx
High-end
68xx - 6970
Enthusiast
6990
API support
DirectX
Direct3D 11 (feature level 11_0) [3] Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL
OpenCL 1.2[1]
OpenGL
OpenGL 4.5[2]
History
Predecessor
Radeon HD 5000 series
Successor
Radeon HD 7000 series
Support status
Unsupported
The Northern Islands series is a family of GPUs developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) forming part of its Radeon-brand, based on the 40 nm process. Some models are based on TeraScale 2 (VLIW5), some on the new TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) introduced with them.
Starting with this family, the former ATI brand was officially discontinued in favor of making a correlation between the graphics products and the AMD branding for computing platforms (the CPUs and chipsets). Therefore, the AMD brand was used as the replacement. The logo for graphics products and technologies also received a minor makeover (using design elements of the 2010 "AMD Vision" logo). This also marks the end of the "Mobility Radeon" name in their laptop GPUs, keeping only the "M" suffix in the GPU model number to signify a Mobile variant.
Its direct competitor was Nvidia's GeForce 500 series; they were launched approximately a month apart.
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