ATI Radeon 9000 series

Architecture block diagram

The Radeon 9000 series is a series of desktop graphics chips from ATI Technologies and the successor to the ATI Radeon 8000 series . It is the third generation of graphics processors with the name ATI Radeon and came onto the market between 2002 and 2004. It was replaced by the ATI Radeon X series . With this series, especially with the Radeon 9700 Pro, ATI Technologies entered the high-end graphics market. A direct competitor product was the GeForce 4 and partly the GeForce FX series from the manufacturer Nvidia .

Graphics processors

Different graphics processors are used within the Radeon 9000 series, which differ in terms of production technology and 3D capabilities.

Overview graphics chips of the ATI Radeon 9000 series

Graphics chip	production			Render pipelines		DirectX / OpenGL version	cutting stelle
	process	transis- interfere	The surface	Pipes × TMU × VPU	Pixel shader
R200	150 nm	approx. 60 million		4 × 2 × 2		8.1 / 1.4	AGP 4 ×
RV250	150 nm	036 million		2 × 2 × 1
RV280	150 nm	036 million		2 × 2 × 1			AGP 8 ×
R300	150 nm	107 million	218 mm²	8 × 1 × 4	8th	9.0 / 2.0
R350	150 nm	approx. 110 million		8 × 1 × 4	8th
RV350	130 nm	075 million	092 mm²	4 × 1 × 2	4th
R360	150 nm			8 × 1 × 4	8th
RV360	130 nm	075 million		4 × 1 × 2	4th

Naming

ATI Radeon 9800 XXL

ATi RV250 without cooler

All graphics chips are identified with a four-digit number that generally begins with a “9” (for Radeon 9000). The second digit divides the family into different market segments, the third and fourth digits serve for further diversification. The models are further subdivided into different variants. These are marked with a corresponding abbreviation after the model number, which leads to a very large variety of model names.

division

• 90xx / 91xx / 92xx: low-cost
• 95xx / 96xx: mainstream
• 97xx / 98xx: high-end

Letter abbreviations

• SE  - attenuated standard version, the slowest model of a segment
• [no suffix]  - standard version
• XL and XXL  - special models for the OEM market
• Pro  - Faster model of a segment, top model in the low-end segment and the 9700 series
• XT  - Most powerful chip, the top model in the high-end and mainstream segment

Other abbreviations such as "RX", "TX" or "XXL" are not official names from ATI, but marketing names of individual graphics card manufacturers that are intended to indicate special properties.

Model data

ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Overview models of the ATI Radeon 9000 series

model	Official launch	Graphics processor (GPU)					Graphics memory
		Type	vertex shader	Pixel shader	Clock in MHz	Fill rate in MT / s	Size in MB	Clock in MHz	Type	Storage interface	Bandwidth in GB / s
Radeon 9000	Oct 2002	RV250	1	4th	250	1000	032 064 128	200	GDR	128 bit	06.4
Radeon 9000 Pro	Oct 2002	RV250	1	4th	275	1100	032 064 128	275	GDR	128 bit	08.8
Radeon 9100	2003	R200	2	4th	250	2000	032 064 128	250	GDR	128 bit	08.0
Radeon 9200 SE	2003	RV280	1	4th	200	0800	032 064 128	166	GDR	064 bit	02.7
Radeon 9200	2003	RV280	1	4th	250	1000	032 064 128	200	GDR	128 bit	06.4
Radeon 9250 SE	2004	RV280	1	4th	240	0960	032 064 128 256	200	GDR	064 bit	03.2
Radeon 9250	2004	RV280	1	4th	240	0960	032 064 128 256	200	GDR	128 bit	06.4
Radeon 9500	Nov. 2002	R300	4th	4th	275	1100	032 064 128	270	GDR	128 bit	08.6
Radeon 9500 Pro	Nov. 2002	R300	4th	8th	275	2200	064 128	270	GDR	128 bit	08.6
Radeon 9550 SE	2004	RV350	2	4th	250	1000	064 128	200	GDR	064 bit	03.2
Radeon 9550	2004	RV350	2	4th	250	1000	128 256	200	GDR	128 bit	06.4
Radeon 9600 SE	Dec 2003	RV350	2	4th	325	1300	064 128	200	GDR	064 bit	03.2
Radeon 9600	March 2003	RV350	2	4th	325	1300	128	200	GDR	128 bit	06.4
Radeon 9600 Pro	March 2003	RV350	2	4th	400	1600	128	300	GDR	128 bit	09.6
Radeon 9600 XT	Dec 2003	RV360	2	4th	500	2000	128 256	300	GDR	128 bit	09.6
Radeon 9700	Nov. 2002	R300	4th	8th	275	2200	128	270	GDR	256 bit	17.3
Radeon 9700 Pro	Aug 2002	R300	4th	8th	325	2600	128	310	GDR	256 bit	19.8
Radeon 9800 SE	March 2003	R350	4th	4th	325	1300	128	270	GDR	128 bit	08.6
	2003	R360			380			300		256 bit	19.2
Radeon 9800	March 2003	R350	4th	8th	325	2600	128	290	GDR	256 bit	18.6
Radeon 9800 Pro	March 2003	R350	4th	8th	380	3040	128	340	GDR	256 bit	21.8
	2003	R360					256	350	GDDR2		22.4
Radeon 9800 XL	2003	R350	4th	8th	350	2800	128	310	GDR	256 bit	19.8
Radeon 9800 XXL	2003	R350	4th	8th	390	3120	128	338	GDR	256 bit	21.6
Radeon 9800 XT	Dec 2003	R360	4th	8th	412	3296	256	365	GDR	256 bit	23.4

The logo of the Radeon 9700 Pro

Hints

• The specified clock rates are those recommended or specified by ATI. However, the final specification of the clock rates is in the hands of the respective graphics card manufacturer. It is therefore quite possible that there are graphics card models with different clock rates.

See also

• Nvidia GeForce FX series

Web links

Commons : ATI Radeon 9000 series  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Test report of an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (www.computerbase.de)