Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe: specs and benchmarks

Summary

Matrox started Millennium G550 PCIe sales 26 November 2001 at a recommended price of $199. 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 PCIe 1.0 x1 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 112 mm.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	G500 (2001−2005)
GPU code name	Condor
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	26 November 2001 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

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

Core clock speed	125 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	10 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	0.25	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe 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	PCIe 1.0 x1
Length	112 mm
Width	1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe: 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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	332 MBps	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	2.656 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe. 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

2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX	8.0
OpenGL	1.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

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

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