I'm sick of G800/550 speculation so ...

[Maggi]

funny stuff, but you should have posted it into the Soap Box Forum instead ...

[Kruzin]

Yup.
This has nothing to do with gaming.
Relocated to The Soap Box

[Joel]

I don't think you will see them go back to an add in solution, like the m3D, because of the MB bus limitations. Even with our 2D/3D AGP cards it still seems that the bus is a limiting factor. That is why I think that most of the new cards released this year will have some sort of a programmable GPU. Once the developers start to utilize it then IMO the sky will be the limit, as for performance, and at that point speed will no longer be the issue and image quality will. And that is where the Matrox line will continue to excel.

Joel

[Snake-Eyes]

Hopefully Matrox manages to catch up on the speed issue at the same time as they continue their image quality reign! (The G400Max, though lacking some of the features, still bests GTS' in quality, but lacks the speed I want for many of the games I play).

If they don't catch up, at least to GTS levels, I'll stick to a G400Max in my working box, and continue using the nVidia stuff in the gaming rigs, because if the situation still stands like this:

Matrox 32bit quality > nVidia 32bit quality
Matrox 16bit > nVidia 16bit quality
nVidia 32bit quality > Matrox 16bit quality, and

nVidia 32bit performance > Matrox 16bit performance
nVidia 32bit performance >= required for my games at my res
Matrox 32bit performance < required for my games at my res

Anyhow, that's my decision making process for what gaming card I use, lol. It basically comes down to what looks best while still giving me adequate performance at the resolution and color depth I want to play at, in the games I want to play.

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[TiG]

I'm sick of G800/550 speculation so ...

How about I make up some of my own ?
(thats a rhetorical question obv., im going to anyway)

1) Back in the days of yore Matrox released a Power VR1 add-in board, the M3D.
2) Guillemot/Hercules and STM ink a deal to release a KyroII board (and develop future "stuff"), which previews show finally exploits the benefits of tile based renedering.
3) A cryptic "Matrox havent given up on gamers" surfaces from CeBIT 2001.
4) They finally get sick of trying to keep up with the behemoth(s) on the 3d front and drop a KryoII chip into a G4xx board, or make an add in card . Thereby producing an exceptional all around setup : Image quality, dualhead, dvd max and tile based rendering.
(Oh god please!!!)


*Please note : this is pure navel-gazing/optimism on my part. Any reply that points out the "holes" in this swiss-cheese theory will not be replied to.*

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[CHHAS]

Where do I sign up ?

It would be the perfect solution for a lot of users, no need to change that G400/450 or even a G200, just pop in the newest 3D add-on.

Maybe that's what the Fusion part is all about *hoping*

[TiG]

Whoops! Ive been stuck in Gaming for so long I forgot there were other Forums.

Good to see a few other people think like I do. Doesn't bode well for the International IQ though.

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[spawn666]

maybe matrox will build the dual kyro2 .... maybe. that would be funny. with qdram.

anyway, i think they implement those silly g800 names only to get us weird.