ATI R520

R520

R520 CE

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

Block Diagram

ATI's R520 GPU uses the Ultra-Threaded SE architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 288 mm² and a transistor count of 312 million it is a medium-sized chip. R520 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 16 pixel shaders and 8 vertex shaders, 16 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support).

Graphics Processor

Released: Oct 1st, 2005

GPU Name: R520

Mobile Variant: M58

Codename: Fudo

Architecture: Ultra-Threaded SE

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 90 nm

Transistors: 312 million

Density: 1.1M / mm²

Die Size: 288 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.1

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

WDDM: 1.0

Compute: GFX2

DCE: 1.0

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 16

Vertex Shaders: 8

TMUs: 16

ROPs: 16

Max. TDP: 113 W

All Ultra-Threaded SE GPUs

ATI GPU Architecture History

2009-2015 TeraScale 2
2005-2013 TeraScale
2005-2007 Ultra-Threaded SE
2004-2008 R400
2002-2008 R300
2001-2006 Rage 7
2000 Rage 5
2000-2007 Rage 6
1999-2001 IBM
1998-1999 Rage 4
1997 Rage 2
1997-1999 Rage 3
1992-1997 Mach
1986-1992 Wonder

Graphics cards using the ATI R520 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
ATI Radeon X1800 XL	R520 XL	256 MB	16 / 8	16	16	500 MHz	500 MHz
ATI Radeon X1800 GTO	R520 LE	256 MB	12 / 8	12	12	500 MHz	495 MHz
ATI Radeon X1800 XT	R520 XT	512 MB	16 / 8	16	16	600 MHz	700 MHz
ATI All-In-Wonder X1800 XL	R520 AIW	256 MB	16 / 8	16	16	500 MHz	500 MHz
ATI Radeon X1800 GTO2		256 MB	12 / 8	12	12	500 MHz	500 MHz
ATI FireGL V7300	R520 GL	512 MB	16 / 8	16	16	594 MHz	648 MHz
ATI FireGL V7350	R520 GL	1024 MB	16 / 8	16	16	600 MHz	650 MHz
ATI FireGL V7200	R520 GL	256 MB	16 / 8	16	16	600 MHz	650 MHz
ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition	R520 CE	512 MB	16 / 8	16	16	600 MHz	700 MHz