Matrox Parhelia APVe vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking503not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameCaymanParhelia-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 December 2011 (12 years old)14 June 2006 (17 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$180 no data
Current price$11.99 (0.1x MSRP)$315

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1280no data
Core clock speed750 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)186 Wattno data
Texture fill rate60.001.000
Floating-point performance1,920.0 gflopsno data

Size and 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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length220 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort2x DVI
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.5
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 December 2011 14 June 2006
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

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