NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go vs Matrox Parhelia-LX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go and Matrox Parhelia-LX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports.

NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Matrox Parhelia-LX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go

Videocard is newer: launch date 0 month(s) later

Launch date	1 February 2002 vs 2 January 2002

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia-LX

2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB

Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go	Matrox Parhelia-LX
Essentials
Launch date	1 February 2002	2 January 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Parhelia
Code name		Parhelia-LX
Technical info
Boost clock speed	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	2 Watt
Transistor count	27 Million	80 million
Core clock speed		250 MHz
Texture fill rate		1 GTexel / s
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	medium sized
Interface		AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	DDR	8.1
OpenGL		1.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory type	32 / 64 / 128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI