Millennium P-Series

[Admiral]

If they didn't cut the FAA on it and it performes like a GF3 Ti200, I might go for a P650.

hope the reviews don't spoil my mood

[Zanna]

The price seems to be RIGHT.

Now the only thing to know is the performance level of both versions, or at least a sharp comparison between Parherlia, p650 and p750...

I hope the only REAL difference between 750 and Parhelia is the memory amount.... at least !!!

BR.

[Ribbit]

Performance-wise, I'm going to take a wild guess that they'll be a little slower than Parhelia on current games, but with the fewer pipelines they won't keep up with Parhelia as games get more graphically complex.

On an entirely unrelated note, are Matrox going to reverse their attitude towards Free/Open-Source software support? Somehow I doubt it

[ganyaik]

To compete with the GF3 Ti200 with these 2 pipes sounds quite impossible to me. I think this reduction kills the fillrate pretty much.

[DukeP]

Nice Matrox. Way to go!

/me thought the grafix department where quite dead.


Now make a small wattage version and start putting those chips inside mobiles.

~~DukeP~~

[GNEP]

Short "Register" article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30387.html

[borat]

those asking questions listen to the right places, new core, banding gone, agp 8x ,wont overclock well and why would you want it to? this card is going to be no match for parhelia because its basically half the card, half the pipeline half the memory size/bandwidth, passive cooling on the p650, they are G450 and G550 type hardware not for gamers but for business professionals. i would say no faa or aniso in there either to save on die space. these will be bug free cores designed for business use. however what it does show is that if matrox were ever to get rid of there parhelia cores it should be straightforward to produce a banding free parhelia, wheather or not they ever will or anyone would want one by then is another question entirely.

[Pace]

Yes, but these cards are a nice Parhelia-alike upgrade for G-series users...and possibly with the guarantee of no banding makes it all the nicer

[Kurt]

Originally posted by borat
those asking questions listen to the right places, new core, banding gone, agp 8x ,wont overclock well and why would you want it to? this card is going to be no match for parhelia because its basically half the card, half the pipeline half the memory size/bandwidth, passive cooling on the p650, they are G450 and G550 type hardware not for gamers but for business professionals. i would say no faa or aniso in there either to save on die space. these will be bug free cores designed for business use. however what it does show is that if matrox were ever to get rid of there parhelia cores it should be straightforward to produce a banding free parhelia, wheather or not they ever will or anyone would want one by then is another question entirely.

perception is very important.

it's a bugfree TH piece of HW at less than 250€. you didn't buy a P for speed anyway. it's the right product for some customers I have that need cheap multimonitor HW. I can't possibly sell them sth with the banding issue...

[az]

Are the PCBs blue or green now? On the Matrox site, they're green, but that shade of blue is really beautiful. Not that it'd matter much for the intended target market

AZ

[chaoliang]

End of May. So it suits well to the launch of Spingdale.

[chaoliang]

How long is the TV-Out cable? It looks to be quite short on the picture from Matrox shop.

[WyWyWyWy]

But you can buy Springdale now already!

[chaoliang]

I thought it was Canterwood now. The Springdale should come on 21th May or something. That was what I heard.

[SpiralDragon]

Great news :UP: matrox ..... Haig your the best