Matrox G550: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Matrox started G550 sales 1 January 2001. This is a desktop graphics card based on a G500 architecture and made with 180 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 MB of DDR memory clocked at 332 MBps are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2.656 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Matrox G550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureG500 (2001−2005)
GPU code nameCondor
Market segmentDesktop
Release date1 January 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Matrox G550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Matrox G550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed125 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors10 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology180 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate0.25of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs2of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs2of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Matrox G550 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4x
Length168 mm
Width1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Matrox G550: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR
Maximum RAM amount32 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed332 MBpsof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Matrox G550. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by Matrox G550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX8.0
OpenGL1.5of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Matrox G550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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