ATI Rage 128 PRO: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Rage 128 PRO sales 1 August 1999. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 4 architecture and made with 250 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.14 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.144 GB/s.

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

General info

Some basic facts about Rage 128 PRO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code name	Rage 4 PRO
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 August 1999 (24 years old)
Current price	$40	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Rage 128 PRO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Rage 128 PRO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	118 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	8 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	250 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate	0.24	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Rage 128 PRO 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 Rage 128 PRO: 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	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	143 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	1.144 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Rage 128 PRO. 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 VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Rage 128 PRO, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	6.0
OpenGL	1.2	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Rage 128 PRO. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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