Matrox Millenium P650 vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM Millenium P650 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 64GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2003
Release Date
Nov 2013
Parhelia
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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Base Clock
900 MHz
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Boost Clock
925 MHz
230 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
64MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
7.360GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1280
8
TMUs
80
2
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
460.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
1.840 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Parhelia-LX
GPU Name
Curacao
MP-A4L
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
Parhelia
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
150 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.08 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
130 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
8.1
DirectX
12 (11_1)
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
-
Shader Model
5.1
