Radeon X800 series
Radeon X800 is a series of graphics cards designed by ATI Technologies Inc. introduced at the end of 2004.
Release date | May 4, 2004 |
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Codename | Loki |
Architecture | Radeon R400 |
Transistors | 160M 130nm (R420)
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Cards | |
Entry-level | X800 SE, X800, X800 GT |
Mid-range | X800 GTO, X800 PRO, X800 XL, X850 PRO |
High-end | X800 XT, X850 XT |
Enthusiast | X800 XT PE, X850 XT PE |
API support | |
Direct3D | Direct3D 9.0b Shader Model 2.0b |
OpenGL | OpenGL 2.0 |
History | |
Predecessor | Radeon X700 series |
Successor | Radeon X1000 series |
History of Radeon X800
The Radeon X800 series was designed to take the position X700 XT failed to secure, with 12 pipelines and a 256-bit RAM bus. The card surpassed the 6600GT with performance similar to that of the GeForce 6800. The new X800 XL, a similar product, was positioned to dethrone NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 GT with higher memory speeds and a full 16 pipelines to boost performance. R430 was unable to reach high clock speeds, having been designed to reduce the cost per GPU, creating a need for new top-of-the-line core. The new high-end R4x0-generation arrived with the X850 series, equipped with various core tweaks for slightly higher performance than the "R420"-based X800 series. The "R480"-based X850 line was available in 3 forms: the X850 Pro, the X850 XT, and the X850 XT Platinum Edition, and was built on the reliable high-performance 130 nanometer Low-K process.
Radeon Feature Matrix
The following table shows features of AMD's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).
Name of GPU series | Wonder | Mach | 3D Rage | Rage Pro | Rage | R100 | R200 | R300 | R400 | R500 | R600 | RV670 | R700 | Evergreen | Northern Islands |
Southern Islands |
Sea Islands |
Volcanic Islands |
Arctic Islands/Polaris |
Vega | Navi |
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Released | 1986 | 1991 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | Apr 2000 | Aug 2001 | Sep 2002 | May 2004 | Oct 2005 | May 2007 | Nov 2007 | Jun 2008 | Sep 2009 | Oct 2010 | Jan 2012 | Sep 2013 | Jun 2015 | Jun 2016 | Jun 2017 | Jul 2019 |
Marketing Name | Wonder | Mach | 3D Rage | Rage Pro | Rage | Radeon 7000 | Radeon 8000 | Radeon 9000 | Radeon X700/X800 | Radeon X1000 | Radeon HD 1000/2000 | Radeon HD 3000 | Radeon HD 4000 | Radeon HD 5000 | Radeon HD 6000 | Radeon HD 7000 | Radeon Rx 200 | Radeon Rx 300 | Radeon RX 400/500 | Radeon RX Vega/Radeon VII(7nm) | Radeon RX 5000 |
AMD support | ![]() |
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Kind | 2D | 3D | |||||||||||||||||||
Instruction set | Not publicly known | TeraScale instruction set | GCN instruction set | RDNA instruction set | |||||||||||||||||
Microarchitecture | TeraScale 1 | TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) | TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) | GCN 1st gen | GCN 2nd gen | GCN 3rd gen | GCN 4th gen | GCN 5th gen | RDNA | ||||||||||||
Type | Fixed pipeline[lower-alpha 1] | Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines | Unified shader model | ||||||||||||||||||
Direct3D | N/A | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 9.0 11 (9_2) |
9.0b 11 (9_2) |
9.0c 11 (9_3) |
10.0 11 (10_0) |
10.1 11 (10_1) |
11 (11_0) | 11 (11_1) 12 (11_1) |
11 (12_0) 12 (12_0) |
11 (12_1) 12 (12_1) | |||||||
Shader model | N/A | 1.4 | 2.0+ | 2.0b | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.1 6.3 |
6.4 | ||||||||||
OpenGL | N/A | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.0[lower-alpha 2] | 3.3 | 4.5 (on Linux + Mesa 3D: 4.2 with FP64 HW support, 3.3 without)[1][2][3][lower-alpha 3] | 4.6 (on Linux: 4.6 (Mesa 20.0)) | |||||||||||||
Vulkan | N/A | 1.0 (Win 7+ or Mesa 17+) |
1.2 (Adrenalin 20.1, Linux Mesa 20.0) | ||||||||||||||||||
OpenCL | N/A | Close to Metal | 1.1 | 1.2 | 2.0 (Adrenalin driver on Win7+) (1.2 on Linux, 2.1 with AMD ROCm) |
? | |||||||||||||||
HSA | N/A | ![]() |
? | ||||||||||||||||||
Video decoding ASIC | N/A | Avivo/UVD | UVD+ | UVD 2 | UVD 2.2 | UVD 3 | UVD 4 | UVD 4.2 | UVD 5.0 or 6.0 | UVD 6.3 | UVD 7[4][lower-alpha 4] | VCN 2.0[4][lower-alpha 4] | |||||||||
Video encoding ASIC | N/A | VCE 1.0 | VCE 2.0 | VCE 3.0 or 3.1 | VCE 3.4 | VCE 4.0[4][lower-alpha 4] | |||||||||||||||
Power saving | ? | PowerPlay | PowerTune | PowerTune & ZeroCore Power | ? | ||||||||||||||||
TrueAudio | N/A | Via dedicated DSP | Via shaders | ||||||||||||||||||
FreeSync | N/A | 1 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
HDCP[lower-alpha 5] | ? | 1.4 | 1.4 2.2 |
1.4 2.2 2.3 | |||||||||||||||||
PlayReady[lower-alpha 5] | N/A | 3.0 | ![]() |
3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Supported displays[lower-alpha 6] | 1–2 | 2 | 2–6 | ? | |||||||||||||||||
Max. resolution | ? | 2–6 × 2560×1600 |
2–6 × 4096×2160 @ 60 Hz |
2–6 × 5120×2880 @ 60 Hz |
3 × 7680×4320 @ 60 Hz[5] |
? | |||||||||||||||
/drm/radeon [lower-alpha 7] |
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N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
/drm/amdgpu [lower-alpha 7] |
N/A | Experimental[6] | ![]() |
- The Radeon 100 Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders.
- These series do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
- OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
- The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
- To play protected video content, it also requires card, operating system, driver, and application support. A compatible HDCP display is also needed for this. HDCP is mandatory for the output of certain audio formats, placing additional constraints on the multimedia setup.
- More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
- DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. Support in this table refers to the most current version.
Radeon X800 series
AGP (X8xx)
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Memory (MiB) | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Config core1 | Fillrate | Memory | |||||
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MOperations/s | MPixels/s | MTexels/s | MVertices/s | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | ||||||||
Radeon X800 SE | Oct. 2004 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 425 | 800 | 8:6:8:8 | 3400 | 6800 | 3400 | 637,5 | 25.6 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 GT | Dec. 6, 2005 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 475 | 980 | 8:6:8:16 | 3800 | 7600 | 3800 | 712.5 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 | Dec. 2004 | R430 | 110 | 256 | 400 | 700 | 12:6:12:16 | 4800 | 6400 | 4800 | 600 | 22.4 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 GTO | Dec. 6, 2005 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 400 | 980 | 12:6:12:16 | 4800 | 6400 | 4800 | 600 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 Pro | May 5, 2004 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 475 | 900 | 12:6:12:16 | 5700 | 7600 | 5700 | 712.5 | 28.8 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XL | Feb. 2, 2005 | R430 | 110 | 256 | 400 | 980 | 16:6:16:16 | 6400 | 6400 | 6400 | 600 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XT | May 4, 2004 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 500 | 1000 | 16:6:16:16 | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 | 750 | 32 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XT PE | May 4, 2004 | R420 (loki) | 130 | 256 | 520 | 1120 | 16:6:16:16 | 8320 | 8320 | 8320 | 780 | 35.84 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 Pro | Feb. 28, 2005 | R481 | 130 | 256 | 507 | 1040 | 12:6:12:16 | 6084 | 8112 | 6084 | 760.5 | 33.28 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 XT | Feb. 28, 2005 | R481 | 130 | 256 | 520 | 1080 | 16:6:16:16 | 8320 | 8320 | 8320 | 780 | 34.56 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 XT PE | Feb. 28, 2005 | R481 | 130 | 256 | 540 | 1180 | 16:6:16:16 | 8640 | 8640 | 8640 | 810 | 37.76 | GDDR3 | 256 |
- 1 Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
PCI-E (X8xx)
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Memory (MiB) | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Config core1 | Fillrate | Memory | |||||
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MOperations/s | MPixels/s | MTexels/s | MVertices/s | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | ||||||||
Radeon X800 GT 128MB | Aug. 1, 2005 | R423 R480 (thor) |
130 | 128 | 475 | 350 | 8:6:8:16 | 3800 | 7600 | 3800 | 712.5 | 22.4 | DDR | 256 |
Radeon X800 GT 256MB | Aug. 1, 2005 | R423 R480 (thor) |
130 | 256 | 475 | 980 | 8:6:8:16 | 3800 | 7600 | 3800 | 712.5 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 | Dec. 1, 2004 | R430 (thor) | 110 | 128, 256 | 392 | 700 | 12:6:12:16 | 4704 | 6272 | 4704 | 588 | 22.4 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 GTO 128MB | Sept. 15, 2005 | R423 R480 R430 (thor) |
130 110 |
128 | 400 | 700 | 12:6:12:16 | 4800 | 6400 | 4800 | 600 | 22.4 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 GTO 256MB | Sept. 15, 2005 | R423 R480 R430 (thor) |
130 110 |
256 | 400 | 980 | 12:6:12:16 | 4800 | 6400 | 4800 | 600 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 Pro | May 5, 2004 | R423 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 475 | 900 | 12:6:12:16 | 5700 | 7600 | 5700 | 712.5 | 28.8 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XL | Dec. 1, 2004 (256 MB) May 4, 2005 (512 MB) |
R430 (thor) | 110 | 256, 512MB | 400 | 980 | 16:6:16:16 | 6400 | 6400 | 6400 | 600 | 31.36 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XT | Dec. 1, 2004 | R423 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 500 | 1000 | 16:6:16:16 | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 | 750 | 32 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition | N/A | R423 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 520 | 1120 | 16:6:16:16 | 8320 | 8320 | 8320 | 780 | 35.84 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 Pro | Dec. 1, 2004 | R480 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 507 | 1040 | 12:6:12:16 | 6084 | 8112 | 6084 | 760.5 | 33.28 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 XT | Dec. 1, 2004 | R480 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 520 | 1080 | 16:6:16:16 | 8320 | 8320 | 8320 | 780 | 34.56 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 XT CrossFire Master | Sept. 29, 2004 | R480 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 520 | 1080 | 16:6:16:16 | 8320 | 8320 | 8320 | 780 | 34.56 | GDDR3 | 256 |
Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition | Dec. 21, 2004 | R480 (thor) | 130 | 256 | 540 | 1180 | 16:6:16:16 | 8640 | 8640 | 8640 | 810 | 37.76 | GDDR3 | 256 |
- 1 Pixel shaders : Vertex shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
See also
- List of AMD graphics processing units
- Free and open-source device drivers: graphics#ATI.2FAMD
External links
- "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- "Mesamatrix". mesamatrix.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- "RadeonFeature". X.Org Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
- Killian, Zak (22 March 2017). "AMD publishes patches for Vega support on Linux". Tech Report. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- "Radeon's next-generation Vega architecture" (PDF). Radeon Technologies Group (AMD). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-06. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Larabel, Michael (7 December 2016). "The Best Features of the Linux 4.9 Kernel". Phoronix. Retrieved 7 December 2016.