ATI FireGL X2-256: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started FireGL 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 0.7 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 X2-256: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance 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 X2-256's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL X2-256's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	380 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	117 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	3.040	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL 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 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	700 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
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 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 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

Benchmark performance

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

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