Matrox Parhelia-LX vs GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code name	GM206S	Parhelia-LX
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2016 (8 years ago)	2 January 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	1024	no data
Core clock speed	937 MHz	250 MHz
Boost clock speed	1203 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,940 million	80 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	76.99	1.000
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	64	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	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5 GB/s	250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB/s	8 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

No outputs

2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	8.1
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	5.2	-

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm

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