Radeon 9800 PRO: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon 9800 PRO sales 1 March 2003 at a recommended price of $399 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 8 architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.34 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 21.76 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 47 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon 9800 PRO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	R350
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Radeon 9800 PRO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 9800 PRO'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 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	47 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	3.040	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	8	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9800 PRO 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 Radeon 9800 PRO: 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	128 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	340 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	21.76 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 9800 PRO. 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 Radeon 9800 PRO, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0 (9_0)
OpenGL	2.0	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon 9800 PRO. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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