8 Dispay Matrox Card

[Mehen]

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/press/releases/2009/process_control/mission_critical/mseries_octal/

Montreal, Canada, November 10, 2009/PRNewswire/—Matrox Graphics, the leading manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, today announced the launch of the Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 Octal graphics card, capable of supporting eight DisplayPort or DVI Single-Link outputs from a single workstation. The Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 offers 2GB of memory, resolutions up to 2560x1600 per output, and advanced desktop management features—such as independent or stretched desktop modes—to drive energy, transportation, process control, financial trading, and other mission-critical environments with exceptional performance.

[Belwarrior]

New Video card from Matrox

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9188pciex16/

tomshardware blog about it below

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Matrox-PCIe-DisplayPort-Octal-Graphics,9042.html

what are your thoughts guys?
doubt it could be handy for playing games in surround view

[Evildead666]

OpenGL 2.0 and DX 9.0 only.
2Gb of RAM is a lot tho, even for 8 outputs...

Not sure what the 3D capabilities would be, but not much probably, its a 2D card...

[VJ]

So 8 monitors on one card...
Multiple such cards in a system (I'm guessing 3-4 max, unless there are mainboards with more PCIe-x16 slots)...
Sounds like it offers nice videowall capabilities!

At least nice to see Matrox is still doing what they do best...

Oh, and I do feel sorry for Mehen... He posted in the correct forum, and hasn't gotten a single reply yet...

[Dr Mordrid]

Sounds like another made-for-video editors/multimedia/workstation special.

Have to take a look-see.

[VJ]

I'm guessing more aimed at control stations (e.g. for subways, factories, ...)...

[Dr Mordrid]

Same parameters work for both. Parhelia, P-750 and APVe were great business and editing cards. The more outputs the better.

Mod hat on

How about merging this thread with Mehan's earlier thread in Matrox Hardware?

Mod hat off

[Evildead666]

Dammit. This part of the forum had so many cobwebs on it, I couldn't even see you had posted here.


Can't seem to see what chip IP it would be based on, but DX9 and OpenGL 2.0 seems very last gen, but thats all you need for display systems, and video playback...

[Kruzin]

This card is obviously intended for industrial use, in airports, trading, etc..
I would not expect any kind of performance in 3d, and only marginal in 2d.
I'd be surprised if it even did video editing any better than 3 gen old cards, with the exception of being able to render any OGL 2.0 effects.
I'd bet both DX9 and OGL2.0 are software rendered.

[Dr Mordrid]

The M-Series page says...

Based on a new ASIC, these cards build upon the reliability and stability of previous Matrox products, and retain core Matrox benefits such as long life-cycles, top-to-bottom manufacturing, and unified display driver models for easy deployment across multiple systems.

and the user guides confirm that it's video playback capable.

Aside: did you know that the Matrox P690 is being integrated into a multimonitor avionics package by Goma Electronica SPA for use on Dassault's Falcon business jet?

[Elie]

The M-Series page says...
and the user guides confirm that it's video playback capable.

Aside: did you know that the Matrox P690 is being integrated into a multimonitor avionics package by Goma Electronica SPA for use on Dassault's Falcon business jet?

Cool!!!!

[Evildead666]

As long as they'r not using Windows for the critical apps, thats fine, just fine

[Nicram]

I'm sure it's fast enough to play crysis on all displays ;-)

[Tjalfe]

I'm sure it's fast enough to play crysis on all displays ;-)

if by crysis, you mean a nice promotional slide show