And people still doubt Matrox

[Cygni]

Notice there are no shots of the card. Its a tech demo, as far as I can tell... probably using a DSP thats pushing the DX9 data through software. This goes under vaporware for me.... home of the Rendition Redline

 

[Hardware]

You should know that ramdac has very little to do with 2d quality,
Good joke!

 

[Nemesis77]

<< Just suppose for a moment that matrox do suddenly appear with a wunderkind take-on-all-comers graphical monstrosity (and lets face it, with 20gb/s of memory bandwith and all these funky features, it really ought to eat a ti4600) what are the chances it will be even remotely affordable?

As I see it, either it will be ridiculously expensive or it will not live up to the promised spec. My natrual cynicism prevents me from believing that a company who has been out of the 3D graphics market for so long wll suddenly be able to kick the collective asses of nvidia and nvidia. >>



I have heard estimates that the top-of-the-line Parhelia will cost about 1000 dollars. It's meant for 3D-professionals, and it's supposed to compete with Quadro and the like. It propably has something like 256 megs of RAM. The "low-end" Parhelia supposedly has a price of about 300-370 dollars.

And why couldn't Matrox make a comeback and beat Ati and NVIDIA? I mean, NVIDIA beat S3, Tseng Labs and others. Those were well established players, but newcomer NVIDIA came along and defeated them!

 

[Nemesis77]

<< You should know that ramdac has very little to do with 2d quality,
Good joke! >>



Well, Matrox Millennium II still has good 2D image-quality, even when it's RAMDAC is old by todays standards. High MHz RAMDAC gives you ability to drive the display at higher refresh-rates. You don't need high MHz RAMDAC to have good 2D, you need it for high resolutions.



<< RAMDAC - (Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter) The chip on a video card that converts the digital image into an analog signal. The RAMDAC maintains the color palette and determines refresh rate. The faster the RAMDAC, the higher the possible refresh rate. >>



Source

 

[Czar]

Nemesis77,
how come you can post so long messages? all I get is an error:frown:

 

[Electric Amish]

<< And if you need dual screen CRT + CRT get a Radeon 7500 the ONLY CARD WITH TWO REAL 350MHZ RAMDAC !!!!

If you need DVI get any card DVI is digital and dont care about any signal quality >>



Until the Parhelia is released.

amish

 

[Nemesis77]

<< Nemesis77,
how come you can post so long messages? all I get is an error:frown: >>



Beause I'm so damn cool .

Seriously, I had that problem too, but I switched from "forums.anandtech.com" to "forums2.anandtech.com" and problems disappeared

 

[Czar]

<<

<< Nemesis77,
how come you can post so long messages? all I get is an error:frown: >>



Beause I'm so damn cool .

Seriously, I had that problem too, but I switched from "forums.anandtech.com" to "forums2.anandtech.com" and problems disappeared >>


hehe yeah but I'm so cool that they shut down the forums to fix my problem