AMD Whistler: specs and benchmarks
Summary
This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Whistler: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Whistler | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data |
Detailed specifications
Whistler's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Whistler's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 480 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Number of transistors | 716 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Whistler, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Whistler according to our statistics.
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