Matrox Parhelia DL256: specs and benchmarks

Summary

Matrox started Parhelia DL256 sales on 2003. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Parhelia architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of DDR memory clocked at 500 MBps are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCI-X interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 190 mm.

General info

Some basic facts about Matrox Parhelia DL256: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code name	Parhelia-512
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	2003 (21 year ago)

Technical specs

Matrox Parhelia DL256's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Matrox Parhelia DL256's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	200 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	80 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Texture fill rate	3.200	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Matrox Parhelia DL256 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCI-X
Length	190 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Matrox Parhelia DL256: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	500 MBps	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Matrox Parhelia DL256. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x LFH60

API support

APIs supported by Matrox Parhelia DL256, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	8.1
OpenGL	1.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Matrox Parhelia DL256. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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