Radeon X1800 XT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon X1800 XT sales 1 October 2005 at a recommended price of $549 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a R500 architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 44.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 113 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon X1800 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | R500 (2005−2007) | |
| GPU code name | R520 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 October 2005 (19 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $549 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon X1800 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X1800 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 321 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 113 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 9.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X1800 XT 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 | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X1800 XT: 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 | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 44.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X1800 XT. 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, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon X1800 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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