Radeon X800 series

ATI Radeon X800 series
Release date	May 4, 2004; 20 years ago
Codename	Loki
Architecture	Radeon R400
Transistors	160M 130nm (R420) 160M 130nm (R423); 160M 110nm (R430); 160M 130nm (R480); 160M 130nm (R481);
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
DirectX	Direct3D 9.0b; Shader Model 2.0b
OpenGL	OpenGL 2.0
History
Predecessor	Radeon X700 series
Successor	Radeon X1000 series
Support status
	Unsupported

Radeon X800 is a series of graphics cards designed by ATI Technologies Inc. introduced in May 2004.

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/ATI's GPUs (see also: List of AMD graphics processing units).

Name of GPU series Wonder Mach 3D Rage Rage Pro Rage 128 R100 R200 R300 R400 R500 R600 RV670 R700 Evergreen Northern
Islands Southern
Islands Sea
Islands Volcanic
Islands Arctic
Islands/Polaris Vega Navi 1x Navi 2x Navi 3x

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Marketing Name Wonder Mach 3D
Rage Rage
Pro Rage
128 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
200 Radeon
300 Radeon
400/500/600 Radeon
RX Vega, Radeon VII Radeon
RX 5000 Radeon
RX 6000 Radeon
RX 7000

AMD support

Kind 2D 3D

Instruction set architecture Not publicly known TeraScale instruction set GCN instruction set RDNA instruction set

Microarchitecture

TeraScale 1
(VLIW)

TeraScale 2
(VLIW5)


TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) up to 68xx	TeraScale 3 (VLIW4) in 69xx ^[1]^[2]

Type Fixed pipeline^[a] Programmable pixel & vertex pipelines Unified shader model

Direct3D — 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_1)
12 (12_2)

Shader model — 1.4 2.0+ 2.0b 3.0 4.0 4.1 5.0 5.1 5.1
6.5 6.7

OpenGL — 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.1^[b]^[3] 3.3 4.5^[4]^[5]^[6]^[c] 4.6

Vulkan — 1.0 1.2 1.3

OpenCL — Close to Metal 1.1 (not supported by Mesa) 1.2+ (on Linux: 1.1+ (no Image support on clover, with by rustiCL) with Mesa, 1.2+ on GCN 1.Gen) 2.0+ (Adrenalin driver on Win7+)
(on Linux ROCM, Mesa 1.2+ (no Image support in clover, but in rustiCL with Mesa, 2.0+ and 3.0 with AMD drivers or AMD ROCm), 5th gen: 2.2 win 10+ and Linux RocM 5.0+ 2.2+ and 3.0 windows 8.1+ and Linux ROCM 5.0+ (Mesa rustiCL 1.2+ and 3.0 (2.1+ and 2.2+ wip))^[7]^[8]^[9]

HSA / ROCm — ?

Video decoding ASIC — 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 ^[10]^[d] VCN 2.0 ^[10]^[d] VCN 3.0 ^[11] VCN 4.0

Video encoding ASIC — VCE 1.0 VCE 2.0 VCE 3.0 or 3.1 VCE 3.4 VCE 4.0 ^[10]^[d]

Fluid Motion ^[e] ?

Power saving ? PowerPlay PowerTune PowerTune & ZeroCore Power ?

TrueAudio — Via dedicated DSP Via shaders

FreeSync — 1
2

HDCP^[f] ? 1.4 2.2 2.3 ^[12]

PlayReady^[f] — 3.0 3.0

Supported displays^[g] 1–2 2 2–6 ?

Max. resolution

?

2–6 ×
2560×1600

2–6 ×
4096×2160 @ 30 Hz

2–6 ×
5120×2880 @ 60 Hz

3 ×
7680×4320 @ 60 Hz ^[13]

7680×4320 @ 60 Hz PowerColor

7680x4320

@165 HZ

/drm/radeon^[h] —

/drm/amdgpu^[h] — Experimental ^[14] Optional ^[15]

^ 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.
^ R300, R400 and R500 based cards 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c The UVD and VCE were replaced by the Video Core Next (VCN) ASIC in the Raven Ridge APU implementation of Vega.
^ Video processing for video frame rate interpolation technique. In Windows it works as a DirectShow filter in your player. In Linux, there is no support on the part of drivers and / or community.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) is a component of the Linux kernel. AMDgpu is the Linux kernel module. Support in this table refers to the most current version.