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A while ago (~2 month) I read a message on slashdot.org from John Carmack about graphics card for DOOM3. Unfortunately I lost the link. He spoke about how the 8500 can handle 8 textures in one cycle ? where the GF3/4 had to resort to mutlipass (>2 cycles ?) or something like that. What stroke my mind was the clear statement that we will see THIS YEAR a MULTICHIP solution. I was under the impression that maybe R300 gets something like that with the PCI Bridge solved (something much better than MAXX, remember somebody MAXX??) or a 3dfx-ed NV30 from nVidia perhaps? He got to lengths describing 3dfx is/was the only manufacturer how pioneered successfully multi-chip solutions in the consumer market.
NOW this could be the High-End part from Matrox. Solves the bandwith question vs. price vs. pin count and...
My personal birthday wish list:
Parhelia 1000 Mystique 128MB DDR, 275 Mhz core, 1 core
(GF4 Ti 4200, 8500LE, Voodoo5500), 8GB/s, 200$
Parhelia 2000 Millennium 128MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 1 core
(GF4 Ti 4600, 8500, Voodoo5500), 9GB/s, 300$
Parhelia 4000 Millennium 2*64MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 2 cores
(2 * GF4 Ti 4600, 2 * 8500, Voodoo6000), 18Gb/s, 600$
Parhelia 6000 Millennium 2*2*64MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 2*2 cores
(4 * GF4 Ti 4600, 4 * 8500, 2*Voodoo6000), 36GB/s, 1200$
I am still using a Voodo5500 everday and minute. 2D and good graphics is Matrox as is 3dfx for 3D. They are both gone. One forever, one with a small hope for coming back.
However if Matrox manages to combine their unchallenged 2D core into Parhelia and ultimately create a 3dfx-like multichip-monster I will be in the store with whatever pocket money is left for.
A while ago (~2 month) I read a message on slashdot.org from John Carmack about graphics card for DOOM3. Unfortunately I lost the link. He spoke about how the 8500 can handle 8 textures in one cycle ? where the GF3/4 had to resort to mutlipass (>2 cycles ?) or something like that. What stroke my mind was the clear statement that we will see THIS YEAR a MULTICHIP solution. I was under the impression that maybe R300 gets something like that with the PCI Bridge solved (something much better than MAXX, remember somebody MAXX??) or a 3dfx-ed NV30 from nVidia perhaps? He got to lengths describing 3dfx is/was the only manufacturer how pioneered successfully multi-chip solutions in the consumer market.
NOW this could be the High-End part from Matrox. Solves the bandwith question vs. price vs. pin count and...
My personal birthday wish list:
Parhelia 1000 Mystique 128MB DDR, 275 Mhz core, 1 core
(GF4 Ti 4200, 8500LE, Voodoo5500), 8GB/s, 200$
Parhelia 2000 Millennium 128MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 1 core
(GF4 Ti 4600, 8500, Voodoo5500), 9GB/s, 300$
Parhelia 4000 Millennium 2*64MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 2 cores
(2 * GF4 Ti 4600, 2 * 8500, Voodoo6000), 18Gb/s, 600$
Parhelia 6000 Millennium 2*2*64MB DDR, 300 Mhz core, 2*2 cores
(4 * GF4 Ti 4600, 4 * 8500, 2*Voodoo6000), 36GB/s, 1200$
I am still using a Voodo5500 everday and minute. 2D and good graphics is Matrox as is 3dfx for 3D. They are both gone. One forever, one with a small hope for coming back.
However if Matrox manages to combine their unchallenged 2D core into Parhelia and ultimately create a 3dfx-like multichip-monster I will be in the store with whatever pocket money is left for.
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