Matrox Millennium G250: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Matrox started Millennium G250 sales on 1999. This is a desktop graphics card based on a G200 architecture and made with 250 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.13 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.024 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 150 mm.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Matrox Millennium G250: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | G200 (1998−1999) | |
| GPU code name | Calao | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1999 (25 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Matrox Millennium G250's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Matrox Millennium G250's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 96 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 10 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 250 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.1 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 1 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 1 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Matrox Millennium G250 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).
| Interface | PCI | |
| Length | 150 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Matrox Millennium G250: 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 type | SDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 128 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.024 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Matrox Millennium G250. 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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Matrox Millennium G250, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | None | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | None | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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