ATI Fire GL2: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Fire GL2 sales 1 June 2000 at a recommended price of $1,199. This is a desktop graphics card based on an IBM architecture and made with 250 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.24 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 7.68 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Fire GL2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	IBM (1999−2001)
GPU code name	GT1000
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 June 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Fire GL2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Fire GL2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	205 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	250 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	0.21	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Fire GL2 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 4x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Fire GL2: 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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	240 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	7.68 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Fire GL2. 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Fire GL2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	6.0
OpenGL	1.2	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Fire GL2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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