ATI R580

R580

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

Block Diagram

ATI's R580 GPU uses the R500 architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 352 mm² and a transistor count of 384 million it is a large chip. R580 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 48 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

GPU Name: R580

Architecture: R500

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 90 nm

Transistors: 384 million

Density: 1.1M / mm²

Die Size: 352 mm²

Released: 2006

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

Compute: GFX2

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 48

Vertex Shaders: 8

TMUs: 16

ROPs: 16

Max. TDP: 135 W

All R500 GPUs

ATI GPU Architecture History

1986-1992 Wonder
1992-1997 Mach
1996-1996 Rage 2
1997-1999 Rage 3
1998-1999 Rage 4
1999-2001 IBM
2000-2007 Rage 6
2000-2000 Rage 5
2001-2006 Rage 7
2002-2007 Rage 8
2003-2008 Rage 9
2004-2008 R400
2005-2007 R500
2005-2013 TeraScale
2009-2015 TeraScale 2

Graphics cards using the ATI R580 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX	R580 XT	512 MB	48 / 8	16	16	650 MHz	775 MHz
ATI All-In-Wonder X1900	R580 AIW	256 MB	48 / 8	16	16	500 MHz	477 MHz
ATI Radeon X1900 GT	R580 XL	256 MB	36 / 8	12	12	575 MHz	600 MHz
ATI Radeon X1900 XT	R580 XT	256 MB	48 / 8	16	16	625 MHz	725 MHz
ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition	R580 CF	512 MB	48 / 8	16	16	625 MHz	725 MHz
ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition	R580 XL	256 MB	36 / 8	12	12	575 MHz	600 MHz

R580 GPU Notes

Codename: Rodin
Graphics/Compute: GFX2
Display Core Engine: 1.0
Avivo Video
Programmable pixel&vertex pipelines

OpenGL 3.0: 42% Support
OpenGL 3.1: 16% Support