Introduction

Designed for professional 2D and 3D workstation users, discerning PC enthusiasts and gaming connoisseurs, Matrox Parhelia 256MB combines unparalleled quality, excellent performance and innovative features to provide a completely immersive high-fidelity graphics experience.

The revolutionary new Matrox Parhelia-512 high-fidelity GPU delivers a new level of visual quality, excellent performance and a wide range of innovative technologies. Parhelia-512 is an 80 million transistor, 0.15µ, 2D, 3D and DVD/video GPU with a true 256-bit DDR memory interface providing over 20 gigabytes per second (GB/s) of raw memory bandwidth.

This AGP device supports unified frame buffers up to 256MB in size and integrates two RAMDACs, a TV encoder and support for dual TMDS transmitters. Designed to surpass the expectations of the most demanding professional users and PC enthusiasts, Parhelia-512 has three major goals: to dramatically increase the quality of all aspects of visualization, to sustain high performance for the most complex and demanding graphics rendering and to deliver a number of innovative and substantive features.

Features

• 512-bit GPU
  
• 256-bit DDR memory interface
  
• 128MB or 256MB DDR memory
  
• High performance 2D, 3D & video
  
• Triple-RGB, Dual-DVI, TV output
  
• Surround Design and Surround Gaming
  
• DualHead-HF and TripleHead Desktop
  
• 16x Fragment Antialiasing
  
• UltraSharp Display Output technology
  
• 10-bit GigaColor technology
  
• Matrox PrecisionCAD driver for AutoCAD®
  
• Realtime Display Color Adjustment
  
• PureVideo Preview
  
• AGP 4X
  

Specifications

Professional Software Bundle

• AEC|VIZT Visualization Plugin for AutoCAD®
  
• WYSIWYG Plug-ins for Digital Content Creation
  
• Coloreal® color calibration and ICC profiling utility
  
• 10-bit GigaColor plug-in for Adobe® PhotoShop®

Multi-Display configurations

• Parhelia offers the most advanced multi-display support in the form of DualHead High-Fidelity, TripleHead Desktop, Surround Design and Surround Gaming. This support is enabled through highly flexible output configuration options including dual-RGB, dual-RGB + TV-out, triple-RGB* and dual-DVI**. Matrox Parhelia cards feature two DVI-I connectors integrated on the bracket. The full flexibility of display configurations are offered to end users by the standard bundling of three cables/adaptors:
  
  
• One "Y-shaped" DVI-I to dual HD-15 cable
  
• One DVI-I to HD-15 adaptor
  
• One HD-15 to S-video (Y/C) and composite cable
  

Minimum system requirements

• AGP 2.0 compliant system
  
• 128 MB RAM
  
• 600 MHz CPU
  
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows XP, or Windows NT 4.0 operating system
  (check regularly for updates on support for other operating systems)
  
• 300W system power supply
  
• CD-ROM

Package Contents

• Matrox Parhelia 256MB graphics card
  
• DVI-to-HD15 dual-monitor adapter cable
  
• DVI-to-HD15 connector adapter
  
• TV-output adapter cable (HD-15 to composite video and S-video)
  
• Stereo-3D adapter cable (DVI-to-DVI + stereo-3D, mini DIN-3 connector)
  
• Stereo-3D connector bracket (mini DIN-3 connector)
• Matrox display driver for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
  
• Matrox PowerDesk (driver interface and utilities)