Radeon X800 series

Radeon X800 is a series of graphics cards designed by ATI Technologies Inc. introduced at the end of 2004.

ATI Radeon X800 series
Release dateMay 4, 2004 (May 4, 2004)
CodenameLoki
ArchitectureRadeon R400
Transistors160M 130nm (R420)
  • 160M 130nm (R423)
  • 160M 110nm (R430)
  • 160M 130nm (R480)
  • 160M 130nm (R481)
Cards
Entry-levelX800 SE, X800, X800 GT
Mid-rangeX800 GTO, X800 PRO, X800 XL, X850 PRO
High-endX800 XT, X850 XT
EnthusiastX800 XT PE, X850 XT PE
API support
Direct3DDirect3D 9.0b
Shader Model 2.0b
OpenGLOpenGL 2.0
History
PredecessorRadeon X700 series
SuccessorRadeon 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 Big Navi
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 Nov 2020
Marketing Name Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage Radeon 7000 Radeon 8000 Radeon 9000 Radeon X700/X800 Radeon X1000 Radeon HD 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 Radeon RX 6000
AMD support
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 RDNA 2
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)
11 (12_2)
12 (12_2)
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 6.5
OpenGL N/A 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.0[lower-alpha 2] 3.3 4.5 (on Linux + Mesa 3D: 4.5 with FP64 HW support, 4.3 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+)
(on Linux: 1.2 with Mesa 3D, 2.1 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm)
? 2.1 [4]
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[5][lower-alpha 4] VCN 2.0[5][lower-alpha 4] VCN 3.0[6]
Video encoding ASIC N/A VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 VCE 3.0 or 3.1 VCE 3.4 VCE 4.0[5][lower-alpha 4]
Fluid Motion
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[7]
?
/drm/radeon[lower-alpha 7] N/A
/drm/amdgpu[lower-alpha 7] N/A Experimental[8]
  1. 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.
  2. These series do not fully comply with OpenGL 2+ as the hardware does not support all types of non-power of two (NPOT) textures.
  3. OpenGL 4+ compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders and these are emulated on some TeraScale chips using 32-bit hardware.
  4. The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
  5. 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.
  6. More displays may be supported with native DisplayPort connections, or splitting the maximum resolution between multiple monitors with active converters.
  7. 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
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

PCI-E (X8xx)

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Memory (MiB) Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Config core1 Fillrate Memory
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

See also

  1. "AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Beta". AMD. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. "Mesamatrix". mesamatrix.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  3. "RadeonFeature". X.Org Foundation. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. "AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. Killian, Zak (22 March 2017). "AMD publishes patches for Vega support on Linux". Tech Report. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  6. Larabel, Michael (15 September 2020). "AMD Radeon Navi 2 / VCN 3.0 Supports AV1 Video Decoding". Phoronix. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. "Radeon's next-generation Vega architecture" (PDF). Radeon Technologies Group (AMD). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-06. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. Larabel, Michael (7 December 2016). "The Best Features of the Linux 4.9 Kernel". Phoronix. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
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