Radeon 9700: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon 9700 sales 1 July 2002. 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 0.54 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 17.28 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 8x interface. Floppy power connector is required, and power consumption is at 37 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon 9700: 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	Desktop
Release date	1 July 2002 (21 year ago)
Current price	$7.52	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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

Core clock speed	275 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	2.200	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9700 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	Floppy

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 9700: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 9700. 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 support

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

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