VGA Wonder: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started VGA Wonder sales 5 February 1990. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Wonder architecture and made with 800 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 KB of DRAM memory clocked at 0.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 32 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40 MB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about VGA Wonder: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Wonder (1990−1992)
GPU code name	18800-1
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	5 February 1990 (34 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Core clock speed	10 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	800 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
ROPs	1	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of VGA Wonder 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	PCI
Width	1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on VGA Wonder: 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	DRAM
Maximum RAM amount	256 KB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	32 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	10 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	40 MB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on VGA Wonder. 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 VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by VGA Wonder, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	N/A
OpenGL	N/A	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

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

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