ATI M56

M56

M56 GL

ATI's M56 GPU uses the Ultra-Threaded SE architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 150 mm² and a transistor count of 157 million it is a small chip. M56 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 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

Released: Feb 1st, 2006

GPU Name: M56

Desktop Variant: RV530

Codename: Jinn

Architecture: Ultra-Threaded SE

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 90 nm

Transistors: 157 million

Density: 1.0M / mm²

Die Size: 150 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: 12

Vertex Shaders: 5

TMUs: 12

ROPs: 12

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 M56 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600	M56 X1600	256 MB	12 / 5	4	4	450 MHz	470 MHz
ATI Mobility FireGL V5200	M56 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	425 MHz	475 MHz
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition		128 MB	12 / 5	4	4	398 MHz	396 MHz