NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Matrox Parhelia APVe

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Matrox Parhelia APVe

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 612 MHz vs 250 MHz
39.2x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1080 MHz vs 500 MHz
128.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 643 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2007 vs 14 June 2006
Core clock speed	612 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	643 vs 5

Reasons to consider the Matrox Parhelia APVe

Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 274 vs 252

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	274 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
GPU 2: Matrox Parhelia APVe

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

252

274

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	Matrox Parhelia APVe
PassMark - G3D Mark	643	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	252	274

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	Matrox Parhelia APVe
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Parhelia
Code name	G80	Parhelia-512
Launch date	2 May 2007	14 June 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$829
Place in performance rating	616	618
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	612 MHz	250 MHz
CUDA cores	612
Floating-point performance	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	270 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	103.7 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Technologies
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