Matrox Parhelia 256 MB vs GeForce GT 530 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameGF108Parhelia-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (13 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed700 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors585 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate11.200.8
Floating-point processing power0.2688 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs164

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length145 mm175 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s16 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2011 25 June 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

GT 530 OEM has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 530 OEM and Matrox Parhelia 256 MB. We've got no test results to judge.


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