ATI Radeon 9000 series
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.
Graphics chip |
production | Render pipelines | DirectX / OpenGL version |
cutting stelle |
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process | transis- interfere |
The surface |
Pipes × TMU × VPU |
Pixel shader |
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R200 | 150 nm | approx. 60 million | 4 × 2 × 2 | 8.1 / 1.4 | AGP 4 × | ||
RV250 | 150 nm | 36 million | 2 × 2 × 1 | ||||
RV280 | 150 nm | 36 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 | 75 million | 92 mm² | 4 × 1 × 2 | 4th | ||
R360 | 150 nm | 8 × 1 × 4 | 8th | ||||
RV360 | 130 nm | 75 million | 4 × 1 × 2 | 4th |
Naming
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
model | Official launch |
Graphics processor (GPU) | Graphics memory | ||||||||
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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 |
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Radeon 9000 | Oct 2002 | RV250 | 1 | 4th | 250 | 1000 |
64 128 |
32 200 | GDR | 128 bit | 6.4 |
Radeon 9000 Pro | Oct 2002 | RV250 | 1 | 4th | 275 | 1100 |
64 128 |
32 275 | GDR | 128 bit | 8.8 |
Radeon 9100 | 2003 | R200 | 2 | 4th | 250 | 2000 |
64 128 |
32 250 | GDR | 128 bit | 8.0 |
Radeon 9200 SE | 2003 | RV280 | 1 | 4th | 200 | 800 |
64 128 |
32 166 | GDR | 64 bit | 2.7 |
Radeon 9200 | 2003 | RV280 | 1 | 4th | 250 | 1000 |
64 128 |
32 200 | GDR | 128 bit | 6.4 |
Radeon 9250 SE | 2004 | RV280 | 1 | 4th | 240 | 960 |
64 128 256 |
32 200 | GDR | 64 bit | 3.2 |
Radeon 9250 | 2004 | RV280 | 1 | 4th | 240 | 960 |
64 128 256 |
32 200 | GDR | 128 bit | 6.4 |
Radeon 9500 | Nov. 2002 | R300 | 4th | 4th | 275 | 1100 |
64 128 |
32 270 | GDR | 128 bit | 8.6 |
Radeon 9500 Pro | Nov. 2002 | R300 | 4th | 8th | 275 | 2200 |
128 |
64 270 | GDR | 128 bit | 8.6 |
Radeon 9550 SE | 2004 | RV350 | 2 | 4th | 250 | 1000 |
128 |
64 200 | GDR | 64 bit | 3.2 |
Radeon 9550 | 2004 | RV350 | 2 | 4th | 250 | 1000 | 128 256 |
200 | GDR | 128 bit | 6.4 |
Radeon 9600 SE | Dec 2003 | RV350 | 2 | 4th | 325 | 1300 |
128 |
64 200 | GDR | 64 bit | 3.2 |
Radeon 9600 | March 2003 | RV350 | 2 | 4th | 325 | 1300 | 128 | 200 | GDR | 128 bit | 6.4 |
Radeon 9600 Pro | March 2003 | RV350 | 2 | 4th | 400 | 1600 | 128 | 300 | GDR | 128 bit | 9.6 |
Radeon 9600 XT | Dec 2003 | RV360 | 2 | 4th | 500 | 2000 | 128 256 |
300 | GDR | 128 bit | 9.6 |
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 | 8.6 |
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 |
- 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.