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Here are some of my bias opinions. I do not say that Matrox's strategy is wrong. But there are some points that Matrox's consideration might not match the current situation.
I am not sure what Matrox PR were thinking. Maybe the idea of price definition on P650 and P750 is to fill the price gap of the the products that his competitors do not have with their special features...
If so, I feel this idea will make his customers to very extremely limited small portion, which is not good for business of the global competition.
The Matrox's recent year product strategy is kind of strange. The new product does not increase performance at all. Instead, some performance / features are eliminated or sacisificed to reduce the cost as the example below:
G400, G400Max -> G450 , G550
Parhelia-512 -> P650, P750
However, Matrox still charges the premium price for the cost-down version of his products, which definitly have the very high profit margins. But there are a lot of competitive products with the much cheaper price tag which provides the better performance, similar features although the quality is not 100% as good as Matrox's. If they are just 50% as good as Matrox's, Matrox definitely has his big advantage. However, the fact is not. They are within 70~90% as good as Matrox's now.
Other companies like nVidia, ATI are different. Although some of them are struggling with the big Financial problems causing from economy recession, they still always try to produce more cost-effective products and provide better performance. If not, at least the price is reduced, but the similar performance is still kept. In addition, the similar features as Matrox's keep improving to approach Matrox's level. In brief speaking, they are trying to provide the total solutions while Matrox keeps to limit his products to be useful in some special usage.
When I compare the spec of 3DLabs Wildcat VP560, VP760 as the comparison, it looks like P650/P750's main targets are them. However, P650/P750 might not be competitive to VP560/VP760 in terms of price in 3D functionalities and performance.
VP560 is around $160 for the street price. If P650 cannot provide the similar 3D performance as VP560, what is the advantage of P650 usage of Entry level 3D workstation? It does not look like Matrox P650 has the chance to win this terrority. As a result, it is even limited to the professional Photo/AD Editing applcations because of output color accuracy. However, Quadro4 NVS200 does not seem competitive to P650 in the similar area.
Because VP760 uses 256bit memory interface, its 3D performance is definitely better than P750 in most cases. (although the video memory is also 64MB) For the around $50 difference, OEM vendors might choose better and mature 3D performer VP750 if TriHead features is not the main goal of the product line. Keep in mind that 3DLabs' professional OpenGL implementation and stability are still better than nVidia / ATI / Matrox's.
My suggestion is that Matrox should not just excuse and say sorry to those customers that his products cannot match the requirements in terms of price / performance / etc... This is definitely not a good survial method in doing business. Only the flexibility of the product is better, that product can survive and create more opportunities among the competitions.
I am not sure what Matrox PR were thinking. Maybe the idea of price definition on P650 and P750 is to fill the price gap of the the products that his competitors do not have with their special features...
If so, I feel this idea will make his customers to very extremely limited small portion, which is not good for business of the global competition.
The Matrox's recent year product strategy is kind of strange. The new product does not increase performance at all. Instead, some performance / features are eliminated or sacisificed to reduce the cost as the example below:
G400, G400Max -> G450 , G550
Parhelia-512 -> P650, P750
However, Matrox still charges the premium price for the cost-down version of his products, which definitly have the very high profit margins. But there are a lot of competitive products with the much cheaper price tag which provides the better performance, similar features although the quality is not 100% as good as Matrox's. If they are just 50% as good as Matrox's, Matrox definitely has his big advantage. However, the fact is not. They are within 70~90% as good as Matrox's now.
Other companies like nVidia, ATI are different. Although some of them are struggling with the big Financial problems causing from economy recession, they still always try to produce more cost-effective products and provide better performance. If not, at least the price is reduced, but the similar performance is still kept. In addition, the similar features as Matrox's keep improving to approach Matrox's level. In brief speaking, they are trying to provide the total solutions while Matrox keeps to limit his products to be useful in some special usage.
When I compare the spec of 3DLabs Wildcat VP560, VP760 as the comparison, it looks like P650/P750's main targets are them. However, P650/P750 might not be competitive to VP560/VP760 in terms of price in 3D functionalities and performance.
VP560 is around $160 for the street price. If P650 cannot provide the similar 3D performance as VP560, what is the advantage of P650 usage of Entry level 3D workstation? It does not look like Matrox P650 has the chance to win this terrority. As a result, it is even limited to the professional Photo/AD Editing applcations because of output color accuracy. However, Quadro4 NVS200 does not seem competitive to P650 in the similar area.
Because VP760 uses 256bit memory interface, its 3D performance is definitely better than P750 in most cases. (although the video memory is also 64MB) For the around $50 difference, OEM vendors might choose better and mature 3D performer VP750 if TriHead features is not the main goal of the product line. Keep in mind that 3DLabs' professional OpenGL implementation and stability are still better than nVidia / ATI / Matrox's.
My suggestion is that Matrox should not just excuse and say sorry to those customers that his products cannot match the requirements in terms of price / performance / etc... This is definitely not a good survial method in doing business. Only the flexibility of the product is better, that product can survive and create more opportunities among the competitions.
, then of course it does not make sense that you buy a Matrox card. Buy some glasses instead...
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