Matrox Parhelia 256 MB vs GeForce 8200

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code name	C78	Parhelia-512
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	17 April 2007 (17 years ago)	25 June 2002 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	no data
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	80 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.000	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.0384 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	8	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCI	AGP 4x
Length	no data	175 mm
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	256 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	16 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

2x DVI

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	8.1
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.5
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	17 April 2007	25 June 2002
Chip lithography	80 nm	150 nm

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