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Matrox Parhelia review @ Toms

Ouch. I was so looking forward to this card as an upgrade from my 8500 to last me a few years.. guess I'll have to wait now. Maybe their later releases(w/ higher clocks) will fair better. Regardless none of this warrants the pricetag in my opinion.

ripthesystem
 
this card is built for running FSAA. how is it at that? and whats the quality of it? we need a nice anandtech FSAA investigation again.

EDIT: need to read the whole darn article
 
I'll reserve judgement until it begins selling.. using the drivers available then..

It is good to see a third major player in the graphics market again. It will force prices down..
 
You don't need German to read the graphs. Longer = better. And the Parhelia has the shortest graphs, even with the FSAA, etc 🙁
It took a huge performance hit with FSAA enabled. Same thing with anisotropic. But the fillrate and polygon counts under 3dmark are right up there with the Ti 4600 so the Parhelia probably needs a few driver revisions before its ready for prime time. Heck, the Radeon 8500 is breathing down the neck of the Ti 4600 and remember how dissapointing it looked when it first came out. The Parhelia also needs a bump in megahertz.
 
If those are the initial drivers for OpenGL performance, the Parhelia has a ways to go to claim any performance at all. In many benches the card couldn't beat the Radeon 128 meg! Its basically saying the card is one generation behind, in terms of performance in existing games. What does the this mean for the future? The drivers either have A LOT of headroom to grow, or Matrox is going to let the card be as-is, for business users.

I'm waiting for the Matrox zealots to come in and say: who needs more than 60fps anyways?

Sorry excuse for the poor performance of this card.

vash
 
Its basically saying the card is one generation behind, in terms of performance in existing games
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But, it's a step ahead in performance on next generation games.

Oh, and if 60fps is the minimum, not an average, then that is all you need.

amish
 
Wow... I'm glad I bought my Ti 4200.

Something must be wrong, maybe drivers or something. Those number are scary, the 8500 does better in most of the benchmarks.
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Its basically saying the card is one generation behind, in terms of performance in existing games
Click to expand...

But, it's a step ahead in performance on next generation games.

Oh, and if 60fps is the minimum, not an average, then that is all you need.

amish
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Hehe, the Matrox fans are already starting to fall off Cloud 9 😛

60FPS is all you "really" need...
But, it'll do better in 8 months or so..
But, but, but...it has TRIPLE HEAD!! TRIPLE HEAD I tell you, TRIPLE HEAD!!!! 😀
 
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