Radeon HD 7000 series

AMD Radeon HD 7000 series

Release date	January 9, 2012; 12 years ago (January 9, 2012)
Codename	Southern Islands London Trinity Sea Islands
Architecture	TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3 GCN 1st gen GCN 2nd gen
Transistors	292M 40 nm (Cedar) 370M 40 nm (Caicos) 716M 40 nm (Turks) 1.500M 28 nm (Cape Verde) 2.080M 28 nm (Bonaire) 2.800M 28 nm (Pitcairn) 4.313M 28 nm (Tahiti) 2x 4.313M 28 nm (New Zealand)
Cards
Entry-level	73xx - 76xx
Mid-range	7750 7770 7790 7850
High-end	7870 7870 XT 7950 7970
Enthusiast	7990
API support
DirectX	Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 11_1) (GCN version)[8] Shader Model 6.5 (GCN) or Shader Model 5.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 2.1 (GCN version)
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5[1][2][3][4][5] OpenGL 4.6 (GCN only, Win 7+ and Adrenalin 18.4.1+, Linux Mesa: WIP) [6]
Vulkan	Vulkan 1.2 (GCN)[7] or none (TeraScale) SPIR-V
History
Predecessor	Radeon HD 6000 series
Variant	Radeon HD 8000 series
Successor	Radeon R5/R7/R9 200 series
Support status
Unsupported

The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD,^[9] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process.^[10]

The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.^[11]