ATI RV570
ATI's RV570 GPU uses the R500 architecture and is made using a 80 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 230 mm² and a transistor count of 330 million it is a medium-sized chip. RV570 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). It features 36 pixel shaders and 8 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units and 12 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
- RV570
- Architecture
- R500
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 80 nm
- Transistors
- 330 million
- Density
- 1.4M / mm²
- Die Size
- 230 mm²
- Released
- Oct 1st, 2006
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 9.0c (9_3)
- OpenGL
- 2.0
- OpenCL
- N/A
- Vulkan
- N/A
- Shader Model
- 3.0
- Compute
- GFX2
Render Config
- Pixel Shaders
- 36
- Vertex Shaders
- 8
- TMUs
- 12
- ROPs
- 12
- Max. TDP
- 130 W
All R500 GPUs
ATI GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the ATI RV570 GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | GPU Clock | Memory Clock |
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ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP
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RV570 XT | 512 MB | 36 / 8 | 12 | 12 | 575 MHz | 690 MHz |
ATI Radeon X1950 GT AGP
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RV570 XL | 256 MB | 36 / 8 | 12 | 12 | 500 MHz | 600 MHz |
ATI Radeon X1950 GT
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RV570 XL | 256 MB | 36 / 8 | 12 | 12 | 500 MHz | 600 MHz |
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
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RV570 XT | 256 MB | 36 / 8 | 12 | 12 | 575 MHz | 690 MHz |
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL
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RV570 XT | 512 MB | 36 / 8 | 12 | 12 | 575 MHz | 690 MHz |
RV570 GPU Notes
Codename: Warhol Graphics/Compute: GFX2 Display Core Engine: 1.0 Avivo Video Programmable pixel&vertex pipelines |