Matrox Parhelia APVe and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison

Matrox Parhelia APVe

Radeon RX 540X

Architecture

Parhelia (2002−2006)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Parhelia-512

Polaris 12

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

June 2006

March 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

80 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

35.97

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

8 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.1

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

1.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync