RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs Matrox Parhelia Precision SDT

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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)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameParhelia-512GA104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date2003 (21 year ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 data4096
Core clock speed200 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1170 MHz
Number of transistors80 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data70 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200149.8
Floating-point processing powerno data9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs16128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

InterfacePCI-XPCIe 4.0 x16
Length190 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MBps1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth4 GB/s336.0 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 DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB has a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox Parhelia Precision SDT and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox Parhelia Precision SDT is a desktop card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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