ATI FireGL 9800 X2-256: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started FireGL 9800 X2-256 sales 1 March 2003. This is a Rage 9 architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.35 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 22.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. 1x Molex power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FireGL 9800 X2-256: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rage 9 (2003−2006) | |
| GPU code name | R360 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 March 2003 (21 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
FireGL 9800 X2-256's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL 9800 X2-256's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 380 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 117 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 3.040 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 192 (GRID A100A) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL 9800 X2-256 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 8x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x Molex |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FireGL 9800 X2-256: 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 | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 350 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL 9800 X2-256. 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 | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FireGL 9800 X2-256, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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