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ATI R520
R520
R520 CE
Oleg Kashirin
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ATI's R520 GPU uses the Ultra-Threaded SE architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 288 mm² and a transistor count of 312 million it is a medium-sized chip. R520 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 16 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
Released
Oct 1st, 2005
GPU Name
R520
Mobile Variant M58
Codename Fudo
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
90 nm
Transistors
312 million
Density
1.1M / mm²
Die Size
288 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
16
Vertex Shaders
8
TMUs
16
ROPs
16
Max. TDP
113 W
All Ultra-Threaded SE GPUs
ATI GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the ATI R520 GPU
Name
Chip
Memory
Shaders
TMUs
ROPs
GPU Clock
Memory Clock
R520 XL
256 MB
16 / 8
16
16
500 MHz
500 MHz
R520 LE
256 MB
12 / 8
12
12
500 MHz
495 MHz
R520 XT
512 MB
16 / 8
16
16
600 MHz
700 MHz
R520 AIW
256 MB
16 / 8
16
16
500 MHz
500 MHz
256 MB
12 / 8
12
12
500 MHz
500 MHz
R520 GL
512 MB
16 / 8
16
16
594 MHz
648 MHz
R520 GL
1024 MB
16 / 8
16
16
600 MHz
650 MHz
R520 GL
256 MB
16 / 8
16
16
600 MHz
650 MHz
R520 CE
512 MB
16 / 8
16
16
600 MHz
700 MHz
R520 GPU Notes
Mobile Variant: M58
Codename: Fudo
Graphics/Compute: GFX2
Display Core Engine: 1.0
Avivo Video
Programmable pixel&vertex pipelines
Latest Drivers:
Windows XP / Vista:
Catalyst Software Suite 10.2
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