AMD Radeon is a line of products of the graphics processing unit (GPU) from Administrative Microsystems Design (AMD). The Radeon GPUs are mainly for PC gaming and workstation segments. AMD Radeon competes directly with Nvidia’s GeForce series of GPUs.
History of Radeon
AMD introduced the Radeon line in 2000 with the Radeon 256 graphics card to directly rival Nvidia’s GeForce line. Since then, AMD has merely built on the Radeon architecture and introduced over the years further GPU generations to further advance the graphics performance.
Some notable AMD Radeon GPU generations include:
- Radeon HD 5000 series – The first DX11-compatible GPUs
- Radeon RX 400 series – The first GPUs to be built on a 14nm FinFET process, very power-friendly.
- Radeon VII – First 7nm gaming GPU, with Nvidia RTX 2080 as its major competitor.
- Radeon RX 5000 series – First RDNA architecture GPUs, huge efficiency improvements
The current available generation of Radeon at the time of writing this paper is the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series; built on the RDNA 2 architecture.
Key Radeon Technologies
AMD Radeon has developed and incorporated several key graphics technologies into its Radeon GPUs over the years:
- FreeSync – A freely synchronous function that minimises tearing in gaming. That is a free substitute for Nvidia’s G-Sync technology.
- FidelityFX – a collection of graphics post-processing tools for games such as contrast sharpening and AI–induced supersampling.
- Radeon Anti-Lag – reduces input latency by rebalancing the GPU command queues.
- Radeon Image Sharpening – Enhances the resolution of the games with minimum loss in frames per second.
Source: https://dailybusinesspost.com/amd-radeon-graphics-cards-competitive-gaming-and-performance/
