FireGL 9700 X1-256: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started FireGL 9700 X1-256 sales 1 July 2002. This is a Rage 8 architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.62 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 19.84 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 37 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about FireGL 9700 X1-256: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name	R300
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	1 July 2002 (21 year old)

Technical specs

FireGL 9700 X1-256's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL 9700 X1-256's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	325 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	110 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	37 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	2.600	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL 9700 X1-256 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	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FireGL 9700 X1-256: 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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	620 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	19.84 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL 9700 X1-256. 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

API support

APIs supported by FireGL 9700 X1-256, 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 FireGL 9700 X1-256. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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