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.

 

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
5
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 615 617
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

SLI