ATI Fire GL3: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
ATI started Fire GL3 sales 1 June 2000 at a recommended price of $1,999. This is an IBM architecture desktop card based on 250 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.12 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 7.68 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Fire GL3: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | IBM (1999−2001) | |
| GPU code name | GT1000 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 June 2000 (25 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Fire GL3's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Fire GL3's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 205 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 250 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.21 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 1 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Fire GL3 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 4x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Fire GL3: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 120 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 7.68 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Fire GL3. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by Fire GL3, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 6.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.2 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
