Matrox Parhelia PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Go

Comparative analysis of Matrox Parhelia PCI and NVIDIA GeForce2 Go 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

Matrox Parhelia PCI

NVIDIA GeForce2 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 200 MHz vs 143 MHz
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 572 MTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 51% higher memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 332 MHz

Launch date	1 January 2001 vs 11 November 2000
Core clock speed	200 MHz vs 143 MHz
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 572 MTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 332 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Matrox Parhelia PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 Go

Name	Matrox Parhelia PCI	NVIDIA GeForce2 Go
PassMark - G2D Mark		95
PassMark - G3D Mark		4

Compare specifications (specs)

	Matrox Parhelia PCI	NVIDIA GeForce2 Go
Essentials
Architecture	Parhelia	Celsius
Code name	Parhelia-512	NV11 B2
Launch date	1 January 2001	11 November 2000
Place in performance rating	not rated	1393
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	200 MHz	143 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s	572 MTexel / s
Transistor count	80 million	20 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		2 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI-X	AGP 4x
API support
DirectX	8.1	7.0
OpenGL	1.5	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR