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.

Matrox Parhelia APVe

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

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GPU 2

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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	619	620
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