Matrox Parhelia-LX vs Radeon HD 8210

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1232not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.27no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameKalindiParhelia-LX
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date31 January 2014 (10 years ago)2 January 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 cores128no data
Core clock speed300 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)8 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.4001.000
Floating-point processing power0.0768 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs84

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).

InterfaceIGPAGP 8x
Widthno data1-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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared128 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)8.1
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.5
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2014 2 January 2002
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

HD 8210 has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8210 and Matrox Parhelia-LX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8210 is a notebook card while Matrox Parhelia-LX is a desktop one.


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