Matrox Millennium P650

Written by - on 07 November 2009. Posted in Matrox G600

Of course, Matrox Parhelia video cards have never claimed mass recognition. Being one of the first to implement support for DirectX 9.0, Matrox subsequently abandoned this idea in relation to the Parhelia series, encouraging dissatisfied customers with the prospects for a new chip with full support for the modern API.

The Millennium P750 and P650 series graphics cards were designed to provide 50% of Parhelia's performance for 50% of the price. At least the number of pixel pipelines and vertex shader units was halved, the chip capacity was reduced from 512 to 256 bits, the memory bus width was limited to 128 bits, and the memory size was generally reduced to 64 MB. In addition, only the P750 supported three-monitor configurations - until recently, one of the few advantages of Matrox video cards over competitors. The P650 was limited to supporting only two output devices.

Obviously, the 64 MB memory size somewhat limited the possibilities of the P650 series boards in supporting high resolutions in deep colors. Matrox decided to rectify the situation by releasing a 128 MB modification of the Millennium P650 video card.

Specifications Matrox Millennium P650

Chip Millennium P650
RAMDAC 400 MHz - 2 pcs.
Maximum 2D/3D resolution 2048 x 1536 using one analog monitor
PCI Express 16x PCI-E
Memory type DDR SDRAM in BGA package.
Memory bus width 128 bits
Cooling Heatsink and fan on the processor
GPU width 256 bits
Number of pixel pipelines 2, 4 TMUs each.
System requirements (minimum) 600 MHz processor; RAM 128 MB
Interface 2 x DVD-I; 2 DVI --> VGA adapters are included in the package.
Support for Windows 2000, Windows XP.
Other DualHead-HF function - the ability to connect 2 analog or digital monitors.

Unfortunately, this chip could not show itself worthy in games...........