NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP vs Matrox Parhelia APVe

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP and Matrox Parhelia APVe 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Matrox Parhelia APVe

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 250 MHz
4.8x more texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP
GPU 2: Matrox Parhelia APVe

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	Matrox Parhelia APVe
PassMark - G3D Mark		5
PassMark - G2D Mark		274

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	Matrox Parhelia APVe
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Parhelia
Code name	G73	Parhelia-512
Launch date	1 July 2006	14 June 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	618
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	23.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR