What gives Matrox far superior 2D Quality...

[Gamingphreek]

What on the Matrox cards gives them such superior 2D IQ?

Is it possible for Nvidia and ATI to follow suit, and take 2D IQ from Matrox?

-Kevin

 

[mwmorph]

software and hardware front. their drivers and utilities and chips are built for 1 purpose and 1 purpose only. 2D graphics speed and quality. Nvidia and ATi has tooptomise for a balacne of 2d and 3d.

It's like a ppu. Why is it so much better for physics than a CPU? it's specialized so it can be optomised fro 1 particular application.

 

[So]

They splurge on the DAC's (RAMDAC's? -- not sure if that's the proper term) to get hight quality D->A conversion.

 

[Peter]

RAMDACs are not being used on DVI connections. Issues like black/white transition edge quality, color reproduction linearity and pretty much all else that mattered for a good analog signals are moot points now, although Matrox marketing are trying to stretch them over. A DVI signal shifts the original, unchanged display image information into the display unit, digitally, and loss-free. Signal quality on DVI serves only one purpose: Getting a stable data connection - and if you have one, you get the ORIGINAL data, straight digital from the graphics card's actual frame buffer, out the other end; if you don't have one, you'll get useless garbage.

 

[kmmatney]

I always thought that ATIs 2D (on made by ATi cards) was as good as Matrox's. I've used a Matrox Millenium II, and a G450 dual head, and several ATi Radeons.