TheEvergreen series is a family ofGPUs developed byAdvanced Micro Devices for itsRadeon line under theATI brand name. It was employed in Radeon HD 5000graphics card series and competed directly withNVIDIA'sGeForce 400 series.

ATI Radeon HD 5000 series

Release date	September 10, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-10)
Codename	Evergreen Manhattan
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Transistors	292M 40 nm (Cedar) 627M 40 nm (Redwood) 1.040M 40 nm (Juniper) 2.154M 40 nm (Cypress) 2x 2.154M 40 nm (Hemlock)
Cards
Entry-level	5450 5550 5570
Mid-range	5670 5750 5770
High-end	5830 5850 5870
Enthusiast	5970
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 4000 series
Successor	Radeon HD 6000 series
Support status
Unsupported

The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as "R8xx". AMD held a press event in theUSS Hornet Museum on September 10, 2009^[4] and announced ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and specifications of the Radeon HD 5800 series' variants. The first variants of the Radeon HD 5800 series were launched September 23, 2009, with the HD 5700 series launching October 12 and HD 5970 launching on November 18^[5] The HD 5670, was launched on January 14, 2010, and the HD 5500 and 5400 series were launched in February 2010, completing what has appeared to be most of AMD's Evergreen GPU lineup.

Demand so greatly outweighed supply that more than two months after launch, many online retailers were still having trouble keeping the 5800 and 5900 series in stock.^[6]

This article is about all products under the Radeon HD 5000 seriesbrand.TeraScale 2 was introduced with this.

• Radeon HD 5830 and above products，have the capability to calculatedouble-precision floating-point format.
• Radeon HD 5770 and below products，have the capability to calculate onlysingle-precision floating-point format.
• OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders. These are implemented by emulation on someTeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs.

The on-diedisplay controllers with the new brand nameATI Eyefinity were introduced with the Radeon HD 5000 series. The entire HD 5000 series products have Eyefinity capabilities supporting three outputs. TheRadeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition, however, supports sixmini DisplayPort outputs, all of which can be simultaneously active.

Display pipeline supportsxvYCC gamut and 12-bit per component output viaHDMI. HDMI 1.3a output. The previous generation Radeon R700 GPUs in theRadeon HD 4000 series only support up toLPCM 7.1 audio and no bitstream output support forDolby TrueHD andDTS-HD Master Audio audio formats to external decoders. This feature is now supported on Evergreen family GPUs. On Evergreen family GPUs, DisplayPort outputs on board are capable of 10-bit per component output,^[7] andHDMI output is capable of 12-bit per component output.

Unified Video Decoder (UVD2.2)^[8] is present on thedies of all products and supported byAMD Catalyst 9.11 and later throughDXVA 2.0 onMicrosoft Windows andVDPAU onLinux andFreeBSD. Thefree and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD also support UVD.

OpenCL accelerates many scientific software packages up to a factor 10 or 100 and more, compared to contemporary CPUs.OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all TeraScale 2 and 3 chips.^[9]

The following table shows features ofAMD/ATI'sGPUs (see also:List of AMD graphics processing units).

CodenamedHemlock, the Radeon HD 5900 series was announced on October 12, 2009, starting with the HD 5970.^[27] The Radeon HD 5900 series utilizes twoCypress graphics processors and a third-party PCI-E bridge. Similar to Radeon HD 4800 X2 series graphics cards; however, AMD has abandoned the use of X2 moniker for dual-GPU variants starting with Radeon HD 5900 series, making it the only series within theEvergreen GPU family to have two GPUs on one PCB.

CodenamedCypress, the Radeon HD 5800 series was announced on September 23, 2009. Products included Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870. The launching model of Radeon HD 5870 can support three display outputs at most, and one of these has to supportDisplayPort. In terms of overall performance, the 5870 comes in between the GTX 470 and GTX 480 from rival company Nvidia, being closer to the GTX 480 than the GTX 470.^[28] An Eyefinity 6 edition of Radeon HD 5870 was released, with 2 GiB GDDR5 memory, supporting six simultaneous displays, all to be connected to one of themini DisplayPort outputs and all supporting this connection natively to not require additional hardware. The Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 usable shader processors, while the Radeon HD 5850 has 1,440 usable stream cores, as 160 out of the 1,600 total cores are disabled duringproduct binning which detects potentially defective areas of the chip. A Radeon HD 5830 was released on February 25, 2010. The Radeon HD 5830 has 1,120 usable stream cores and a standard core clock of 800 MHz.

The codename for the 5700 GPU wasJuniper and it was exactly half ofCypress. Half the shader engines, half the memory controllers, half the ROPs, half the TMUs, half everything. The 5750 had one shader engine disabled (of 10), so had 720 stream processors, while the 5770 had all ten enabled. Additionally, the 5750 ran at 700 MHz and a lower voltage, while the 5770 used more power, but ran at 850 MHz. Both cards were normally found with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, but 512 MB variants did exist, performance suffering somewhat.

CodenamedRedwood XT, the 5600 series has all five of Redwood's shader engines enabled. As each of them has 80 VLIW-5 units, this gave it 400 stream processors. Reference clocks were 775 MHz for all 5600s, while memory clocks varied between OEMs, as did the use of DDR3 and GDDR5 memory, the latter being twice as fast.

The Radeon HD 5570 was released on February 9, 2010, using the Redwood XT GPU as seen in the 5600 series. At first release was limited to DDR3 memory, but later, ATI added support for GDDR5 memory. One more variant, with only 320 stream cores, is available and Radeon HD 5550 was suggested as the product name. 5570s and 5550s were available with GDDR5, GDDR3 and DDR2 memory. The 5550 variant disabled one shader engine, so had only 320 stream processors (4 engines, 80 VLIW-5 units each).

All reference board designs of the Radeon HD 5500 series are half-height, making them suitable for a low profile form factor chassis.

CodenamedCedar,^[29] the Radeon HD 5400 series was announced on February 4, 2010, starting with the HD 5450. The Radeon HD 5450 has 80 stream cores, a core clock of 650 MHz, and 800 MHz DDR2 or DDR3 memory. The 5400 series is designed to assume a low-profile card size.

AMD Catalyst is being developed forMicrosoft Windows andLinux. As of July 2014, other operating systems are not officially supported. This may be different for theAMD FirePro brand, which is based on identical hardware but features OpenGL-certified graphics device drivers.

AMD Catalyst supports of course all features advertised for the Radeon brand.

The free and open-source drivers are primarily developed onLinux and for Linux, but have been ported to other operating systems as well. On HD5000, the driver using following six parts:

1. Linux kernel componentDRM
2. Linux kernel componentKMS driver: basically the device driver for thedisplay controller in kernel, called "radeon".
3. user-space component libDRM: basically one of 3d drivers. The HD5000 series are using the "r600g" driver.
4. user-space component inMesa 3D;
5. a special and distinct 2D graphics device driver forX.Org Server; with this card,EXA is used instead ofGlamor

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics driver supports most of the features implemented into the Radeon line of GPUs.^[30]

The free and open-source "Radeon" graphics device drivers arenot reverse engineered, but based on documentation released by AMD.^[31]

• AMD FirePro
• AMD FireMV
• AMD FireStream
• List of AMD graphics processing units

• ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics
• techPowerUp! GPU Database

• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5700 & HD 5600 Series
• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6300M Series Graphics
• AMD Radeon HD 6500M Series Graphics
• AMD Radeon HD 6800M Series Graphics