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ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

Graphics Processor
M9
Pixel Shaders
4
Vertex Shaders
1
TMUs
4
ROPs
4
Memory Size
64 MB
Memory Type
DDR
Bus Width
128 bit
GPU Chip
GPU
The Mobility FireGL 9000 was a professional mobile graphics chip by ATI, launched in 2002. Built on the 150 nm process, and based on the M9 graphics processor, in its M9-CSP64GL variant, the chip supports DirectX 8.1. Since Mobility FireGL 9000 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The M9 graphics processor is a relatively small chip with a die area of only 81 mm² and 36 million transistors. It features 4 pixel shaders and 1 vertex shader 4 texture mapping units, and 4 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). ATI has paired 64 MB DDR memory with the Mobility FireGL 9000, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 250 MHz, memory is running at 200 MHz.
Its power draw is not exactly known. This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have monitors connected to it. Rather it is intended for use in laptop/notebooks and will use the output of the host mobile device. Mobility FireGL 9000 is connected to the rest of the system using an AGP 4x interface.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
M9
GPU Variant
M9-CSP64GL
(216W9NCBGA13FH)
Architecture
Rage 7
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
150 nm
Transistors
36 million
Density
444.4K / mm²
Die Size
81 mm²

Mobile Graphics

Release Date
2002
Generation
Mobility FireGL
Successor
FirePro Mobility
Production
End-of-life
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Reviews
2 in our database

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock
250 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
400 Mbps effective

Memory

Memory Size
64 MB
Memory Type
DDR
Memory Bus
128 bit
Bandwidth
6.400 GB/s

Render Config

Pixel Shaders
4
Vertex Shaders
1
TMUs
4
ROPs
4

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
1.000 GPixel/s
Vertex Rate
62.50 MVertices/s
Texture Rate
1.000 GTexel/s

Board Design

TDP
unknown
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent

Graphics Features

DirectX
8.1
OpenGL
1.4
OpenCL
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
Pixel Shader
1.4
Vertex Shader
1.1

M9 GPU Notes

Desktop Variant: RV280
Codename: Argus
Graphics/Compute: GFX1
Smart Shader 1.0
Smooth Vision 1.0
TruForm 1.0
FullStream
Hyper Z II
Video Shader
Video Immersion II
Programmable pixel&vertex pipelines

M9 Chip Numbers:
M9-CSP64GL (216W9NCBGA12FH)
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