Matrox Parhelia APVe vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia APVe and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 9.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 47 vs 5
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 47 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Matrox Parhelia APVe
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5
47
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
274
274
Name Matrox Parhelia APVe NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
PassMark - G3D Mark 5 47
PassMark - G2D Mark 274 274

Compare specifications (specs)

Matrox Parhelia APVe NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Essentials

Architecture Parhelia Curie
Code name Parhelia-512 G72
Launch date 14 June 2006 1 June 2006
Place in performance rating 617 618
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 250 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 1 GTexel / s 1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 80 million 112 million
Boost clock speed 450 MHz
Pipelines 4
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 MXM-III
Length 168 mm

API support

DirectX 8.1 9.0c
OpenGL 1.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 700 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type DDR 64
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II