Matrox Parhelia DL256 vs Radeon Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking901not rated
Place by popularity10not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameRenoirParhelia-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data2003 (21 year 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 cores448no data
Core clock speedno data200 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data80 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate42.003.200
Floating-point processing power1.344 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs2816

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).

InterfaceIGPPCI-X
Lengthno data190 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared500 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x LFH60

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)8.1
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 150 nm

Graphics has a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

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