G450- Review

[paulcs]

The ultimate 2D game: Par-cheese-ee!!

Boy, I sense the Soap Box is in our future.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.com

[WayneHu]

In Business applications, Matrox did a good job with G450. G450 with DVI is less than $150 and it still has very clear and sharp VGA & Video signal outputs.

Instead, Most manufacturers try to cost down the GF2MX and use less quality passive components. Even most of them do not include the Twin-head features in order to reduce the production cost. The most excellent GF2MX designed by Canopus will have better singal output quality, even better than G400 series. However, it is too expensive. ( I think it is more than $200, near other brand's GeForce DDR)

In my viewpoints, I will consider 4 points for a video adapter which costs more than $100. And the less number is more important than the larger one.

1. Display Output Signal Quality
2. Video Filter Quality
3. Other Features (Dual Head, independent TV-out, Clone Zoom display)
4. 3D Speed (Direct3D, OpenGL)
5. OpenGL application Capacity. (Not Game)

Though I put 3D Speed in the 4th position, I do not mean it is not important. It can be imperfect, but must be acceptable for most applications. I think Matrox do not did this well on G450. The 3D performance should not indeed be less than the product 1 year's ago.

If we concern about OpenGL applications, nVidia did a better job than Matrox. However, I would never choose nVidia or Matrox if I need to run professional OpenGL application. Using 3DLabs' card is a wiser selection.


[This message has been edited by WayneHu (edited 07 September 2000).]

[DentyCracker]

Love that Asia Carrera Dual Head demo.
I really should go eat lunch

[paulcs]

It may have been interesting to see some testing against 3DLabs' budget content creation boards. Maybe some OpenGL tests with SPEC’s GLperf benchmark. Toss it up against the Oxygen VX1. (I think 3DLabs discontinued the Perimedia 3 Create. It was pretty redundant.) I would have found it more interesting than the Quaver benches.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Marshmallowman]

But how well does it overclock!!!!

[Wilson]

There's only one reason why Matrox release the G450. It makes all existing users like us with G400 Max & G400 proud. Aside from that this is to protect our investment as well ! Good thinking Matrox !


Wilson