Matrox Parhelia-LX vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1150

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Parhelia (2002−2006)
GPU code nameRS485Parhelia-LX
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 May 2006 (18 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 cores6no data
Core clock speed400 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data80 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm150 nm
Texture fill rate0.81.000
ROPs22
TMUs24

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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.

DirectX9.08.1
OpenGL2.01.5
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2006 2 January 2002
Chip lithography 110 nm 150 nm

ATI Xpress 1150 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 36.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Xpress 1150 and Matrox Parhelia-LX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Xpress 1150 is a notebook card while Matrox Parhelia-LX is a desktop one.


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