Read this about G800!!!

[Amiga Blitter]

The source of my information was someone at Xbitlabs.

Greetings....

[Novdid]

I don´t want a card that is exeptionally fast. I just want one with a lot of useful features but unlike Radeon I want decent drivers.

[impact]

I second that Novdid. I'm sick and tired from the fact that I can't run roughly half of all opengl apps. Funny thing is that games usually run fine. But every now and then comes a program, I run it, it crashes, I start troubleshooting it and end up reading a FAQ stating "Symptom: program crashes with message blahblahblah - Cause: You have a Matrox G400, don't you? Well that is your problem. Solution: run in software mode (you'll get 1-2fps and the rendering won't be accurate but it will work)".

Grrrrr. Is it really impossible to write a fully functional OpenGL ICD?

[FrankDC]

Posted today in alt.comp.periphs.videocard.nvidia:
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I found some specs that compare the GeForce2 GTS to the Matrox G800.

Here are some of the Matrox G800 specs:

250MHz DDR RAM clock (GeForce2: 166)
3 pixels/clockcycle, 3 textures/pixel (G400MAX 2/1; GF2: 4/2)

G400 ------> 2 rendering pipelines/1 pixels per clock (300/300)
GF-256 ----> 4 rendering pipelines/1 pixels per clock (480/480)
GF2Mx ----> 2 rendering pipelines/2 pixels per clock (350/700)
G800 ------> 3 rendering pipelines/3 pixels per clock (600/1800)
GF2GTS ---> 4 rendering pipelines/2 pixels per clock (800/1600)

Fillrate 600 MPixels, respectively 1800 MTexels (G400MAX 300/300; GF2:
800/1600)
T&L unit with 20-30 million polys/sec
DualChip setup capability

- Pin compatible with G450
- Double fillrate of G450
- Support for 250MHz DDR FCRAM
- Support for Hardware T&L
- Support for DirectX 8.0 Shader and fully functional DX7
- New DX7, 8 IDC drivers

It appears the G800 MAY perform at the same level as the GTS but I will
have to see the actual test numbers before I'll believe it. Matrox should
be releasing the card in a couple of weeks. That's the plan anyway.

[MK]

I`m afraid I can`t believe anything anymore ...
But that would for sure satisfy my needs for the moment.

MK

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Celeron II 860 MHz + Golden Orb
256 MB PC133 Crucial 7E (CAS2)
G400 16MB @ PD 5.52 + TGL
20 GB IBM on HPT U-ATA100 RAID
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400

[This message has been edited by MK (edited 17 March 2001).]

[Liquid Snake]

Old news. The same exact specs were posted here a long time ago. But, the only specs that matters is the feature sets. If it has no Render Nude Feature, I may very well stick with my G400.

[DuRaNgO]

I believe that can be added via a bios FLASH

[Greebe]

I've got my jumper cables ready and waiting!

[Topha]

actually matrox does not have to realease a chip with killer specs.
kyro proofed that tile based rendering is enough to kick a gf2's butt without T&L and without incredible high clock rates.
so if matrox released a reasonable priced card with T&L and tile based rendering i would be sound as a pound
if they added a RSN (not quite sure what that is yet, but i think i can imagine ) and some dx8 features thats fine with me.
maybe they delayed the g450 eTV because they are gonna realease an AIW g800/g500/condor II/etc...
i dont even want a gf3 killer, because i probably wont be able to afford it

[Amiga Blitter]

i missed something? What does it mean "TCFKAG"???

Thank you.

[Topha]

amiga, TCFKAG is a creation from ant (i think) and it means "The chip/card formerly known as G800"

[Amiga Blitter]

Thank you, thopa.

[NordicNINE]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Novdid:
I think we all have to cool down and await GDC/CEBIT.

After that we can discuss any announced products that we probably ain´t going to be able to buy anyways for x amounts of months.</font>

IF they even announce a product.

[Amiga Blitter]

The italian version of Matrox Cebit HTML page say:

"raising the curtain on our stars....
"Not just hardware news"...

http://www.matrox.com/mga/italiano/a...2001/cebit.cfm

[Novdid]

I think we all have to cool down and await GDC/CEBIT.

After that we can discuss any announced products that we probably ain´t going to be able to buy anyways for x amounts of months.