3D Rage II: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started 3D Rage II sales 5 September 1996 at a recommended price of $269 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Mach architecture and made with 500 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.08 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 664.0 MB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about 3D Rage II: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code name	Mach64 GT-B
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	5 September 1996 (28 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$269	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

3D Rage II's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of 3D Rage II's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	60 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	5 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	500 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	0.06	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of 3D Rage II and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCI
Width	1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on 3D Rage II: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	83 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	664.0 MB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on 3D Rage II. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by 3D Rage II, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	5.0
OpenGL	N/A	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of 3D Rage II. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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