Matrox Parhelia 128 MB vs ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1218not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.81no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameRV730Parhelia-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date10 September 2008 (16 years ago)25 June 2002 (22 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed600 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors514 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)48 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.200.8
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs324

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xAGP 4x
Lengthno data175 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s16 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)8.1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.5
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 September 2008 25 June 2002
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 4650 AGP has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4650 AGP and Matrox Parhelia 128 MB. We've got no test results to judge.


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