Parhelia II announcement spotted

[UtwigMU]

This page has briefly appeared on Matrox server, it has since been taken down, but I have fortunately been able to save the page and screen capture.

Seems like Matrox is on the right track again:
- 24 pipelines
- 8 vertex shaders
- 35GB/s memory bandwidth
- DX9.0c/WGF1.0 compatibility
- triple DVI with KX20 connector
- improved FAA16x and bandwidth saving features
- $699 USD - it's not cheap but considering it will have workstation drivers and perform on par with next nVidia and Ati refreshment it will not be too overpriced
- cards available Q3 05


This is totally unexpected, but on the other hand Matrox has been quiet before other major releases and they must have been working on something all this time.

[DC]

I hope to hold one of them in my hands soon.

DC

[mmp121]

Man I really hate 04-01-05. So much to WANT to believe, so little to really believe

I hope its not an April Fools Joke, but it most likely is.

[Umfriend]

Good one that.

[schmosef]

Of course it's an April Fools joke. I'm not taking the bait.

[PAugustin]

Still no HD-RSN

Yes that's the new High Definition version of RSN !


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[Jenix]

just a joke??T.T

[Rakido]

it must be real, there's a screenshot .... and it's posted on the internet ....

[Mikko]

Someone must have spent alot of time writing this announcement. Maybe even one whole workday...

Well, it's dated April 5th 2005. Let's see if there's any news on Matrox website next week.

[schmosef]

Come on guys, don't get sucked in. It's a joke, just like the original Parhelia.

[schmosef]

You know what?

I just realized that head-casting was probably just an april fools joke that Matrox played on us!

No one ever tried to use it so no one figured it out.

The guys at Matrox must have been so embarassed.

[PAugustin]

Another nice Matrox April's Fool for french speakin Murcers : http://www.matbe.com/actualites/9489...ier-sur-le-PPU

[Mikko]

Another nice Matrox April's Fool for french speakin Murcers : http://www.matbe.com/actualites/9489...ier-sur-le-PPU

Thanks, PAugustin

Babel Fish Translation:

The graphic board manufacturer Matrox has just announced officially his partnership with the Ageia firm. For recall, the latter had made speak about it lately by presenting its Physic Processing Unit (PPU), primarily intended for reporting calculations of elementary physics. And at first sight, the things did not trail since Matrox would have already developed a graphics board equipped with this famous PPU and whose base would be currently its Parhelia antique. Turning under an engine house, Matrox considers the profits of performances due to the PPU of about 30%. Far from being a stylistic device, Matrox hopes well to propose from here a few months the first graphics boards embarking of origin a PPU. Initially, only the professional market will be targeted since currently, no software uses this process but Matrox has in project to return gradually in the general public field with a very new GPU bearing the soft name of factory of P950. If one knows yet nothing the technical specifications of this last, it should nativement manage PCIe 16x and SM 3.0 while not integrating less than 180 million transistors. Matrox hopes to place this GPU on the level of current GeForce 6600 WP in terms of performances although it can currently speculate only in theory. ImageMais that does not stop there since in addition partnership with Ageia, Matrox has just offered the licence of Unreal Engine 3 of Epic, which integrates already the physical software engine, Novodex, especially conceived for the PPU of Ageia. The loop is buckled. If Matrox is realistic as for its ambitions vis-a-vis with the two tenors since are ATI and Nvidia, it should be hoped that it will try nevertheless to exploit the prices by proposing a relatively competitive graphics board in terms of prix/performances report/ratio.

[greinedo]

Another nice Matrox April's Fool for french speakin Murcers : http://www.matbe.com/actualites/9489...ier-sur-le-PPU

Hi PAugustin !

Are you sure it's an April's Fool ?

I think this site is saying the truth ! See here : http://www.matbe.com/actualites/9497...oots-officiels

[tbow::]>]

Don't play with my emotions like that....