The FireGL V7100 was an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by ATI, launched on December 1st, 2004. Built on the 130 nm process, and based on the R423 graphics processor, in its R423 GL variant, the card supports DirectX 9.0b. Since FireGL V7100 does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The R423 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 289 mm² and 160 million transistors. It features 16 pixel shaders and 6 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). ATI has paired 256 MB GDDR3 memory with the FireGL V7100, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 493 MHz, memory is running at 475 MHz.
Being a single-slot card, the ATI FireGL V7100 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 91 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x S-Video. FireGL V7100 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 1.0 x16 interface. The card measures 211 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a single-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 1099 US Dollars.