Matrox Millenium P650

The Matrox Millenium P650 is an end-of-life AGP 8x graphics card built around the Parhelia-LX chip on the Parhelia architecture. The data records the manufacturer as Unknown, the foundry as UMC, and a 150 nm process with 80 million transistors on a 130 mm² die, giving a transistor density of 615.4K per mm². It includes 64 MB of DDR memory on a 128-bit bus, a single-slot cooler, no power connectors, a suggested 200 W PSU, and dual DVI outputs. It supports DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3. The launch MSRP was 169 USD.

Who Should Consider It

With no recorded benchmark scores, the P650 must be judged from its listed specifications. The 64 MB frame buffer and 7.360 GB/s bandwidth are the dominant constraints. They indicate a card aimed at modest resolutions and moderate texture workloads, not at high-resolution, high-texture gaming. The 2 ROPs cap pixel fill at 460.0 MPixel/s, while the 8 TMUs provide a higher texture rate of 1.840 GTexel/s. That imbalance favors scenes with limited overdraw and heavy pixel-shader work rather than fill-rate-bound effects.

The dual DVI outputs make the P650 a plausible choice for a dual-digital desktop on an AGP 8x system. Users who need two DVI connections from a single-slot card have a clear reason to consider it. The 64 MB memory capacity limits the size of framebuffers and texture sets. The data does not support recommending high-resolution or high-quality settings, because the memory pool and pixel rate are too small to sustain them. The absence of nearest-rival data means no settings-level comparison against other GPUs is possible. The 50th percentile in the all-GPU database provides a broad positional anchor, but it is not a score.

In practice, the P650 is best suited to 2D-oriented or light 3D use cases where its memory and fill rates are not stressed. The AGP 8x bus interface is the only host connection listed. Users with an AGP 8x slot and DVI monitors are the target audience. The listed API support of DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 further narrows the software environment to older titles and applications.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

RT cores and tensor cores are not listed; both fields are null. The card cannot be described as having ray tracing hardware or tensor acceleration. The API set is DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3. No Vulkan support is listed. This limits the feature set to the APIs of the time.

The display feature set is notable: 2x DVI outputs and AGP 8x. The card is single-slot and requires no power connectors. The memory clock is 230 MHz with 460 Mbps effective. The 8 TMUs and 2 ROPs define the texture and pixel pipeline. No shading-unit count is listed. No FP32 or FP16 throughput is listed, so compute capabilities are not quantified. The Parhelia architecture name, 150 nm process, and 80 million transistor count are the remaining feature-level facts.

For buyers interested in modern API features, the listed DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 support is the boundary. The absence of RT and tensor cores means there is no hardware path for ray-traced or tensor-accelerated workloads. The card’s defining characteristics are its dual DVI output capability and its AGP 8x interface, not its processing feature set.

How It Compares

The nearestRivals array is empty. There are no rival names, rival scores, or deltaPct values for the Matrox Millenium P650. Consequently, no per-rival paragraphs can be written. The data set provides no basis for statements such as ahead of or behind a named competitor.

The only ranking information comes from percentileVsAllGpus, which is 50. That places the card at the median of the all-GPU distribution, but without nearest-rival entries the relative position to specific products is undefined. The average benchmark score of 0 further reduces the possibility of comparison. In this dataset, the P650 exists as a specifications-only entry.

FAQ

Q: What API versions does the Matrox Millenium P650 support?

A: The data lists DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3. No Vulkan API is listed.

Q: How much memory and memory bandwidth does it have?

A: It has 64 MB of DDR memory on a 128-bit bus, with 7.360 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory clock is 230 MHz, with 460 Mbps effective.

Q: Does the card require external power connectors?

A: No. The power connector field is None, and the suggested PSU is 200 W.

Q: What display outputs are available?

A: The data lists 2x DVI outputs.

Q: Is the card still in production?

A: No. The production status is end-of-life.

Q: Does it have ray tracing or tensor cores?

A: No. The data shows no RT cores and no tensor cores.

Power and Cooling

The data does not list a TDP, so no power-dissipation number can be cited for the card itself. The suggested PSU is 200 W, which is the system power guidance in the data. The power connector field is None, so no auxiliary connector is required. The card occupies one slot, according to the single-slot field. The AGP 8x interface is the power-delivery path in the absence of connectors.

The 150 nm process and 80-million-transistor die give process context, but the only numerical power-related item is the 200 W suggested PSU. Cooling details beyond slot width are not listed. A single-slot physical design with no power connectors implies that the card’s thermal and electrical demands are limited, but the data itself supports only two concrete points: single-slot size and no external power connections.

Memory Subsystem

The memory subsystem is built around 64 MB of DDR on a 128-bit bus. The memory clock is 230 MHz with 460 Mbps effective, producing 7.360 GB/s of bandwidth. This is a compact memory pool by the standards of the data set.

For high resolutions, the 64 MB capacity imposes a hard limit on the amount of frame-buffer and texture data that can be stored on-card. The 128-bit bus is the data path, and the bandwidth figure is the resulting throughput. The 460.0 MPixel/s pixel rate is the corresponding output limit. The 8 TMUs feed textures into the pipeline at 1.840 GTexel/s, but the 2 ROPs and 7.360 GB/s bandwidth constrain final writes.

The data does not provide a memory overclock option or an expanded capacity variant. Therefore, memory-sensitive workloads are the first limiting factor. The combination of 64 MB, a 128-bit bus, and 7.360 GB/s bandwidth makes the P650 a low-to-mid capacity memory subsystem, with the dual DVI output likely being the more important feature for many users.

Benchmark Performance

The benchmarks list is empty. The average benchmark score is 0, and the percentileVsAllGpus field is 50. Nearest-rival entries are absent, so no deltaPct values exist. Therefore, the data cannot support exact percentage comparisons with rival GPUs.

The raw specification rates are 460.0 MPixel/s and 1.840 GTexel/s, but these are not benchmark results. They represent theoretical pipeline limits. The 50th percentile is the only positional metric in the data. A 50th percentile places the P650 at the midpoint of the database distribution. The zero average score and empty benchmarks array mean this rank is not backed by a recorded test score.

The safest reading is that the P650 has no measured benchmark data in this database, leaving specification-based analysis as the only viable approach. Exact percentage deltas cannot be formed, and no rival comparison section can be populated. The listed pixel rate and texture rate remain the most concrete performance-related numbers, but they are raw hardware limits, not application results.