AMD Banks

Banks

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AMD's Banks GPU uses the GCN 1.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 56 mm² and a transistor count of 690 million it is a very small chip. Banks supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 2.1 (1.2) can be used. It features 320 shading units, 20 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.

Further reading: GCN 1.0 Architecture Whitepaper

, Sea Islands Instruction Set Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Jun 30th, 2016

GPU Name: Banks

Desktop Variant: Hainan

Mobile Variant: Sun / Jet / Exo

Generation: Sea Islands

Architecture: GCN 1.0

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 690 million

Density: 12.3M / mm²

Die Size: 56 mm²

Package: FCBGA-631

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (11_1)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 2.1 (1.2)

Vulkan: 1.2.170

Shader Model: 6.5 (5.1)

WDDM: 2.7

Compute: GFX6 (gfx601)

DCE: No Support

UVD: No Support

VCE: No Support

CLRX: GCN 1.0.0

Render Config

Shading Units: 320

TMUs: 20

ROPs: 8

Compute Units: 5

ACEs: 2

GEs: 1

L1 Cache: 16 KB per CU

L2 Cache: 128 KB

Max. TDP: 50 W

All GCN 1.0 GPUs

AMD GPU Architecture History

2023 CDNA 3.0
2022-2024 RDNA 3.0
2021 CDNA 2.0
2020 CDNA 1.0
2020-2023 RDNA 2.0
2019-2020 RDNA 1.0
2018-2022 GCN 5.1
2017-2020 GCN 5.0
2016-2020 GCN 4.0
2014-2019 GCN 3.0
2013-2017 GCN 2.0
2011-2020 GCN 1.0
2010-2013 TeraScale 3
2009-2015 TeraScale 2
2005-2013 TeraScale
2005-2007 Ultra-Threaded SE

Graphics cards using the AMD Banks GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM	Banks S3 PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	1030 MHz	1125 MHz
AMD Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3	Banks S3 PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	1030 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5	Banks S3 PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	1030 MHz	1125 MHz
AMD Radeon 610 Mobile	Banks S3 PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	1030 MHz	1000 MHz
AMD Radeon 520 OEM	Banks S3 PRO	2 GB	320	20	8	1030 MHz	1125 MHz

Banks GPU Notes

Generation: Sea Islands
Desktop Variant: Hainan
Mobile Variant: Sun / Jet / Exo
Graphics/Compute: GFX6 (gfx601)
Display Core Engine: No Support
Unified Video Decoder: No Support
Video Compression Engine: No Support
CLRX: GCN 1.0

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