RTX A4500 vs Matrox Parhelia PCI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated45
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.26
ArchitectureParhelia (2002−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameParhelia-512GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date2003 (21 year ago)23 November 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data7168
Core clock speed200 MHz1050 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors80 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rate3.200369.6
Floating-point processing powerno data23.65 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs16224
Tensor Coresno data224
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCI-XPCIe 4.0 x16
Length190 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB20 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MBps2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth4 GB/s640.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 20 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX A4500 has a 7900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Matrox Parhelia PCI and RTX A4500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Matrox Parhelia PCI is a desktop card while RTX A4500 is a workstation one.


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