ATI FireGL 9800 X2-256: specs and benchmarks

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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 rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameR360
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date1 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 speed380 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors117 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology150 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate3.040of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs8of 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).

InterfaceAGP 8x
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeDDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed350 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sof 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by FireGL 9800 X2-256, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0
OpenGL2.0of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FireGL 9800 X2-256. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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