Matrox Parhelia-LX vs ATI Mobility Radeon

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia-LX and ATI Mobility Radeon 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 Radeon

Differences

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia-LX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 144 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 16 MB
Around 74% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 288 MHz

Launch date	2 January 2002 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 144 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 16 MB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 288 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon

432x more texture fill rate: 432 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	432 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	Matrox Parhelia-LX	ATI Mobility Radeon
Essentials
Architecture	Parhelia	Rage 6
Code name	Parhelia-LX	M6
Launch date	2 January 2002	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	144 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	432 MTexel / s
Transistor count	80 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	16 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	2.304 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	288 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR