Matrox Parhelia-LX vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia-LX and ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Matrox Parhelia-LX

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Differences

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia-LX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 230 MHz
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
Around 37% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 366 MHz

Launch date	2 January 2002 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 230 MHz
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 366 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

560x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Matrox Parhelia-LX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Name	Matrox Parhelia-LX	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
PassMark - G3D Mark		4
PassMark - G2D Mark		103

Compare specifications (specs)

	Matrox Parhelia-LX	ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Essentials
Architecture	Parhelia	Rage 7
Code name	Parhelia-LX	M7
Launch date	2 January 2002	1 December 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	1356
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Transistor count	80 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Pipelines		2
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		27 Watt
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	7.0
OpenGL	1.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	366 MHz
Memory type	DDR	64 / 128
Shared memory		0