Matrox Parhelia-LX vs ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia-LX and ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 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-LX

ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia-LX

2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	Matrox Parhelia-LX	ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Parhelia	Rage 7
Code name	Parhelia-LX	M9
Launch date	2 January 2002	1 January 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	80 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.1
OpenGL	1.5	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	128
Shared memory		0