ATI FireGL 8700: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started FireGL 8700 sales 14 August 2001. This is a Rage 7 architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.54 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 4x interface.

General info

Some basic facts about FireGL 8700: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	R200
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	14 August 2001 (22 years old)

Technical specs

FireGL 8700's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL 8700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	250 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	60 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate	2.000	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL 8700 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

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FireGL 8700: 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	64 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	8.64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL 8700. 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

API support

APIs supported by FireGL 8700, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	8.1
OpenGL	1.4	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FireGL 8700. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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