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Matrox Millenium P650 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM Millenium P650 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 64GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Graphics Card

May 2003
Release Date
Unknown
Parhelia
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock
950 MHz
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Boost Clock
1000 MHz
230 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

64MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
7.360GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units
32
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-
-
-
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
2
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
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L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
768 KB
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-
-

Theoretical Performance

460.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
1.840 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Parhelia-LX
GPU Name
Tahiti
MP-A4L
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)
Parhelia
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
150 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.08 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
130 mm²
Die Size
352 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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-
-
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Shader Model
5.1
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