Matrox Parhelia DL256 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Parhelia-512 NV34B
Architecture Parhelia Rankine
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 80 million 45 million
Die size 174 mm² 91 mm²
GPU variant FX 5500 NPB

Graphics Card

Release date 2001 Mar 17th, 2004
Generation Parhelia GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCI-X PCI
Reviews 5 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 200 MHz 270 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 4.000 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 4
Vertex shaders 4 2
TMUs 16 4
ROPs 4 4

Performance

Pixel rate 800.0 MPixel/s 1.080 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 200.0 MVertices/s 135.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 3.200 GTexel/s 1.080 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 190 mm 7.5 inches 165 mm 6.5 inches
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x LFH60 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number PH-P256DLF

API Support & Features

DirectX 8.1 9.0a
OpenGL 1.3 1.5
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 1.3 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0 2.0a

Other Features

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