Tesla X2090 vs Matrox Parhelia APVe

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
ArchitectureParhelia (2002−2006)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameParhelia-512GF110
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date14 June 2006 (18 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 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 coresno data512
Core clock speed250 MHz651 MHz
Number of transistors80 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data225 Watt
Texture fill rate1.00041.66
Floating-point processing powerno data1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs464

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s177.4 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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL1.54.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2006 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 40 nm

Tesla X2090 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox Parhelia APVe and Tesla X2090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox Parhelia APVe is a desktop card while Tesla X2090 is a workstation one.


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