Rage XL PCI: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Rage XL PCI sales 1 August 1998. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 3 architecture and made with 350 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.08 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 664.0 MB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCI interface.

General info

Some basic facts about Rage XL PCI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rage 3 (1997−1998)
GPU code name	Rage 3
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	1 August 1998 (25 years ago)
Current price	$34	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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

Core clock speed	125 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	8 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	350 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	0.13	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Rage XL PCI 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	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Rage XL PCI: 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	8 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	83 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	664.0 MB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Rage XL PCI. 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 XL PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	6.0
OpenGL	1.1	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

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

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