Matrox Parhelia 256 MB vs VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia 256 MB and VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

Matrox Parhelia 256 MB

VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8

Compare specifications (specs)

	Matrox Parhelia 256 MB	VIA S3 Graphics ProSavage8
Essentials
Architecture	Parhelia
Code name	Parhelia-512
Launch date	1 January 2001	1 January 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	80 million
Boost clock speed		121 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	8.1
OpenGL	1.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		yes