Benchmarks or reviews of P256?

[yuppi]

Hi,
I just got the Matrox-Newsletter announcing the P256 and I wonder wheter reviews or benchmarks are avaible atm?

[R.Carter]

Well, as far as anyone outside of Matrox knows, the retail Parhelia 256 cards will be clocked slower than the existing P128 retail cards.

You can find clock speeds of the Parhelia cards here.

It is also suspected that the PH-A256 cards will be using the current Parhelia 128 core. So I wouldn't expect the performance of a PH-A256 to be any better than that of an existing PH-A128R card unless you happen to be using an application that uses massive amounts of textures.

In fact, a PH-A256 might be worse since they seem to need to run the card slower due to the larger amount of memory on the card.

Of course, this is all pure speculation.