Two New Graphics Cards from Matrox Graphics to Come

[Guru]

Have you already forgotten about a company called Matrox Graphics? Well, you should not do that since despite of the fact that its market share is below 1%, the firm is still alive and kicking. According to a report from a web-site, the company will unleash a couple of new graphics cards based on the Parhelia graphics processor next week.



The newcomers will be based on the Parhelia-LX chips and will be mostly intended for CAD, CAM, MCAD as well as business applications. What is very interesting is that both solutions will be branded as Millenium, but not as Parhelia, as the last year’s product from Matrox Graphics. The only difference between the “Parhelia 2002” and “Parhelia 2003” is AGP 8x support and maybe certain optimizations.



Matrox Graphics will offer Matrox Millennium P650 graphics cards with 64MB of memory and DualHead support for 169 Euro, while Millenium P750 with TripleHead support will cost 235 Euro. Both graphics cards will feature 128-bit memory bus and will be typically slower than the original Parhelia 512 in 3D applications.



The products will be officially announced on the 23rd of April this year and will be available in the second quarter 2003, according to this Dutch web-site.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20030415170229.html

[Umfriend]

Ati 9800 Pro, here I come!
Umf

[exMotraxUser]

LOL

[Chrono_Wanderer]

ROFLMAO. Hey Umfriend, this is no ATI forums lol. hehehhe

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Umfriend
Ati 9800 Pro, here I come!
Umf

People are getting amazing OCs out of the 9600 Pros.

[Indiana]

Yes, seems the 9600PRO is the AthlonXP 1700+ JIUHB0308 of gfx-cards.
560MHz core speed with stock cooling!!

[Chrono_Wanderer]

560!!!! WHAT??????? no extra cooling??? nV needs to learn from ATI

[Indiana]

There were rumors/reports that in development of the R300 ATI bought knowledge from Intels P4 designers regarding heat-efficient chip design to be able to produce the thing in .15u and still clock it high.

Seems it was a worthy investment.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

no wonder! I was wondering, how hot is a normal clocked R9700 PRO?

hmm... Intel's heat managements cannot be beaten, for now.

My P4 is running at 33 degrees!

[drzaius]

for some reason i think the 9700pro puts out 55watts.. don't ask where i got that number from, but that's what i think it is..

i know the GeforceFX 5800ultra does ~75watts or so.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

IIRC The AGP Slot provides 50W right?

so... the FX exceeds 25W

meanwhile, my stable G550 uses 9W

Matrox noice/heat/power effective business products

[funky-d-munky]

9600 is .13
It also is a 4x2 pipe not 8x1
Has a 128bit memory like 9500 pro

I would still go 9500pro, especially when 9600 hit and the price drops! When o/c'ed they perform on par but the 8x1 gives a bit better advantage. ATI went 4x2 to better seperate middle from high-end.
funky

[Nowhere]

afaik it is 4x1
and has half the number of vertex shaders

btw, have you seen somewhere reviews of 9600 NON pro?
I wonder if it is passive cooled...

[Novdid]

Correct Nowhere, it's a 4x1 chip.

[funky-d-munky]

True enough I guess. Never imagined it would go all the way back to that level. I can't believe ATI is so far ahead they can cripple their chips to that level, throw in some optimizations, and still kick everyones asses!
If you take ATI out of the picture the P wasn't far from the top.
funky