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G800: Will it be what we all have been waiting for?
Hi!
Lately there have been a lot of rumours spreading over the internet about the specifications of the upcoming (?) G800 or whatever chip. Of course I do understand that these facts may not at all represent reality. However I will post here my thoughts about the next chipset from Matrox and would like to hear your opinion as well.
nVidia during the last months has experienced a huge success in the market. Their GeForce2 card seems to be faster than any other at the moment, while the recently announced GeForce2 MX is a most serious threat to Matrox G400 (or even G450 I dare to say).
3dfx which was never a problem for Matrox since they had a diametrically opposite strategy has also entered the "high (ok here you may laugh :-) ) quality graphics arena" with hardware support for FSAA etc. Moreover the Voodoo 6000 which is supposed to hit the market soon has killer specs:
Quad VSA-100 processors and 128 MB
One billion pixel per second fill rate
Renders eight fully featured pixels per clock
1.33 and 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second
Priced at $599.99.
32-bit Textures
2k x 2k Textures
350MHz RAMDAC
(while copying these specs I still wonder whether this really is 3dfx :-) oh well...)
Of course there are many more examples out there such as Radeon (or whatever), or even the next version of Kyro whatever that will be...
My point is, Matrox should really do SOMETHING with their G800 chip. I do understand that Matrox is not aiming the high-end gamers market, but nVidia with their MX chip are clearly trying to intrude into Matrox's arena (and sucessfully).
G800 specs:
250MHz DDR RAM clock (GF2: 166) 3 pixels/clockcycle, 3 textures/pixel (G400MAX 2/1; GF2: 4/2)
Fillrate 600 MPixels, respectively 1800 MTexels (G400MAX 300/300; GF2: (800/1600)
T&L unit with 20-30 million polys/sec (GF2:25Mpolys)
DualChip setup capability
Do we need more than that? Well maybe we don't (especially we who don't play much games, although running Winamp's graphic equaliser at a huge window with Alpha Blending - win2k only - would not be bad at all :-) ).
But maybe Matrox does (need more I mean. That parenthesis ruined my comment :-) ).
Would love to hear from you!
George Diamantopoulos
[This message has been edited by GD (edited 03 July 2000).]
Lately there have been a lot of rumours spreading over the internet about the specifications of the upcoming (?) G800 or whatever chip. Of course I do understand that these facts may not at all represent reality. However I will post here my thoughts about the next chipset from Matrox and would like to hear your opinion as well.
nVidia during the last months has experienced a huge success in the market. Their GeForce2 card seems to be faster than any other at the moment, while the recently announced GeForce2 MX is a most serious threat to Matrox G400 (or even G450 I dare to say).
3dfx which was never a problem for Matrox since they had a diametrically opposite strategy has also entered the "high (ok here you may laugh :-) ) quality graphics arena" with hardware support for FSAA etc. Moreover the Voodoo 6000 which is supposed to hit the market soon has killer specs:
Quad VSA-100 processors and 128 MB
One billion pixel per second fill rate
Renders eight fully featured pixels per clock
1.33 and 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second
Priced at $599.99.
32-bit Textures
2k x 2k Textures
350MHz RAMDAC
(while copying these specs I still wonder whether this really is 3dfx :-) oh well...)
Of course there are many more examples out there such as Radeon (or whatever), or even the next version of Kyro whatever that will be...
My point is, Matrox should really do SOMETHING with their G800 chip. I do understand that Matrox is not aiming the high-end gamers market, but nVidia with their MX chip are clearly trying to intrude into Matrox's arena (and sucessfully).
G800 specs:
250MHz DDR RAM clock (GF2: 166) 3 pixels/clockcycle, 3 textures/pixel (G400MAX 2/1; GF2: 4/2)
Fillrate 600 MPixels, respectively 1800 MTexels (G400MAX 300/300; GF2: (800/1600)
T&L unit with 20-30 million polys/sec (GF2:25Mpolys)
DualChip setup capability
Do we need more than that? Well maybe we don't (especially we who don't play much games, although running Winamp's graphic equaliser at a huge window with Alpha Blending - win2k only - would not be bad at all :-) ).
But maybe Matrox does (need more I mean. That parenthesis ruined my comment :-) ).
Would love to hear from you!
George Diamantopoulos
[This message has been edited by GD (edited 03 July 2000).]
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