ATI Radeon 7200

The ATI Radeon 7200 is an end-of-life AGP 4x graphics card from AMD, built on the R100 chip and Rage 6 architecture. It belongs to the Radeon R100 (7200) generation, was fabricated by TSMC on a 180 nm process, and packs 30 million transistors into a 111 mm² die for a transistor density of 270.3K per mm². Its release date is 2000-03-31, with the Rage 6 listed as predecessor and the Radeon R200 as successor. The database records no series, codename, base clock, boost clock, or game clock for the product.

Who Should Consider It

The benchmark data for the Radeon 7200 is essentially empty. The benchmarks array is empty, the average benchmark score is 0, and the nearestRivals list is empty. The only relative data point is the percentileVsAllGpus field, which places the card at 50 — the exact midpoint of the database's GPU distribution. That 50th-percentile rank should be read cautiously: without measured workload scores, it does not represent verified application performance. The performance envelope is instead defined by the card's fixed-function pipeline: 6 TMUs, 2 ROPs, a pixel rate of 332.0 MPixel/s, and a texture rate of 996.0 MTexel/s. Those figures describe a part built around a specific, narrow 3D workload rather than a broad general-purpose compute role.

The 32 MB DDR framebuffer is the total memory capacity recorded, which places a hard limit on how much scene data can be buffered at once. With 5.312 GB/s of bandwidth, large frame buffers and detailed texture sets will not be practical. The only display output is a single VGA connector, so the card is inherently for one analog monitor in an AGP 4x system. It is also limited by its supported APIs: DirectX 7.0 and OpenGL 1.3, with no Vulkan path. Users considering this card should therefore be targeting legacy software that fits those API and memory constraints. The 32 MB capacity is the decisive settings constraint; any workload must keep total graphics data within that frame buffer. The 50th-percentile ranking means the database does treat it as a typical product rather than an extreme outlier, but the absence of recorded scores makes this a positional result only.

Power and Cooling

The power specification is modest. The TDP is 23 W, and the suggested PSU is 200 W. The power connectors field is None, meaning the card does not require auxiliary PCIe power cables. Its bus interface is AGP 4x, and its slot width is single-slot. The database does not list length, height, or width, so the only documented mechanical constraint is the single-slot form factor. A 23 W TDP with no auxiliary connectors makes additional power cabling unnecessary in a system with a 200 W PSU. This leaves most of the power budget available to the rest of the machine. The cooling solution itself is not specified in the fact pack, but the low TDP and single-slot width imply a small thermal footprint. The data shows a card that is easy to install from a power and clearance perspective, as long as an AGP 4x slot is available.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

The Radeon 7200's ray tracing data is absent: rtCores is null. Tensor cores are also null. The architecture is Rage 6, and the chip is R100. The API list is DirectX 7.0 and OpenGL 1.3; Vulkan is null. No RT cores, tensor cores, shading units, FP32 throughput, or FP16 throughput are recorded. The feature set is therefore limited to what DirectX 7.0 and OpenGL 1.3 expose through the fixed-function 3D pipeline. There is no ray tracing acceleration hardware in the specification, and no Vulkan support is listed. The 180 nm process and 30 million transistor budget were allocated to the TMU/ROP pipeline rather than to specialized accelerator blocks. With no dedicated ray tracing or tensor hardware, any such workload would have to run on the general-purpose pipeline, but the data provides no compute throughput figures to evaluate that capability. The only display output is 1x VGA, confirming that the feature set is analog and firmly tied to its generation.

How It Compares

The nearestRivals field in the fact pack is empty, so there are no rival names, scores, or deltaPct values available for comparison. The only comparative metric is percentileVsAllGpus, which places the card at 50 — the median position in the database's all-GPU distribution. In the absence of rival entries, the average benchmark score of 0 cannot be contextualized against any other product. The data does not offer a direct head-to-head comparison with any specific card. The correct interpretation is that no in-database rival is defined for the Radeon 7200. The percentile rank remains the sole positional indicator, and it is a middle-of-the-road placement. This is neither a flagship nor a bottom-tier position in the database. The Radeon 7200's predecessor is listed as Rage 6, and its successor is Radeon R200, but those entries carry no benchmark scores in this fact pack. Therefore, the database supports generational positioning but not performance deltas.

Memory Subsystem

The memory subsystem is compact but precisely specified. The card has 32 MB of DDR memory on a 128-bit bus. The memory clock is 166 MHz, with an effective data rate of 332 Mbps. The resulting bandwidth is 5.312 GB/s. A 128-bit bus is a wide path relative to the small memory capacity, but the low memory clock and limited capacity constrain the overall memory footprint. At 5.312 GB/s, the memory interface is positioned to feed the 996.0 MTexel/s texture rate and the 332.0 MPixel/s pixel rate. However, with only 32 MB, high-detail textures and large frame buffers will exceed the available storage. The bandwidth is also modest by any modern standard, so the card is not suited to demanding visual settings. The 128-bit bus and DDR memory are the key structural facts, while 166 MHz is the only recorded clock in the entire specification because base, boost, and game clocks are all null. For a card with this memory capacity, the bandwidth figure matters more for fill-rate-bound scenes than for large data transfers. The 2 ROPs limit pixel throughput to 332.0 MPixel/s, and the 6 TMUs produce 996.0 MTexel/s, so the memory interface must keep pace with both. The 32 MB DDR framebuffer, 128-bit bus, and 5.312 GB/s bandwidth define a tightly integrated memory subsystem for a tightly constrained legacy workload.