ATI Fire GL1: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Fire GL1 sales 1 March 1999 at a recommended price of $999. This is an IBM architecture desktop card based on 250 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 2x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Fire GL1: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | IBM (1999−2001) | |
| GPU code name | IBM | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 March 1999 (25 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Fire GL1's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Fire GL1's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 45 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 250 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.05 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 1 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Fire GL1 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 | AGP 2x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Fire GL1: 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 | 32 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 100 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Fire GL1. 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 Fire GL1, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 6.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.2 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Fire GL1 according to our statistics.
