Matrox Parhelia 128 MB vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Parhelia-512 NV34B
GPU variant PHF-D2 FX 5500
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

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 30th, 2004 Mar 17th, 2004
Generation Parhelia GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 5 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 250 MHz 270 MHz
Memory clock 300 MHz 600 Mbps effective 166 MHz 332 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 64 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 19.20 GB/s 5.312 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 1.000 GPixel/s 1.080 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 250.0 MVertices/s 135.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 4.000 GTexel/s 1.080 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 175 mm 6.9 inches 152 mm 6 inches
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number PH-A8X128

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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