VIA Castle Rock vs Matrox G450 x4 MMS

Comparative analysis of VIA Castle Rock and Matrox G450 x4 MMS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support.

VIA Castle Rock

Matrox G450 x4 MMS

Differences

Reasons to consider the VIA Castle Rock

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later

Launch date	1 January 2003 vs 1 January 2001

Reasons to consider the Matrox G450 x4 MMS

62.5x more core clock speed: 125 MHz vs 2 MHz

Core clock speed	125 MHz vs 2 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	VIA Castle Rock	Matrox G450 x4 MMS
Essentials
Code name	CLE266	Condor
Launch date	1 January 2003	1 January 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		G400
Technical info
Core clock speed	2 MHz	125 MHz
Pipelines	1
Manufacturing process technology		180 nm
Texture fill rate		4x 250.0 MTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count		10 million
Memory
Shared memory	yes
Maximum RAM amount		4x 32 MB
Memory bandwidth		4x 2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width		4x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed		332 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCI
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX		6.0
OpenGL		None