ATI Radeon 9700 PRO X4: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Radeon 9700 PRO X4 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 0.62 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 19.84 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCI interface. Two Molex power connectors are required.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon 9700 PRO X4: 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 old)

Technical specs

Radeon 9700 PRO X4's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 9700 PRO X4'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 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate	2.600	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9700 PRO X4 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	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x Molex

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 9700 PRO X4: 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 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
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 Radeon 9700 PRO X4. 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

4x DVI

API support

APIs supported by Radeon 9700 PRO X4, 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 PRO X4. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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