Parhelia Features

[Amiga Blitter]

It's incredible. I have buy a card like a ferrari but it run like a fiat 500. Matrox enfatizes some features of the card at the parhelia launch. QUAD TEXTURING 64 .... VERTEX SHADERS 2.0 ETC. bUT WHERE ARE THEASE FEATURES?
I want to send back my parhelia card.

It is time for the GFFX?

CAN mATROX BE SUED FOR THIS?

[UtwigMU]

LOL, I know how fiat 500 looks like.

[TdB]

I must admit that their stance towards those missing features are questionable, why do we have to ask them for the features that are adverticed on the box?

I mean, this isn´t normal procedure, right?

[Amiga Blitter]

Let me know this situation to some hardware reviewer

[[GDI]Raptor]

Come on Matrox! Give us a explonation on this! Why is it several feautures in your web spesification that's NOT in the drivers for the card, and NOT considerd important!

I don't know how the laws are in Canada, but in Norway it is ilegal to sell a product that doesn't match the spesifications the company gives!

[Amiga Blitter]

look

i buy the parhelia (not retail) for 430 euro

i want my money back

[[GDI]Raptor]

Re: look

Originally posted by Amiga Blitter
i buy the parhelia (not retail) for 430 euro

i want my money back

It's suposed to suport Vertex Shader 2.0 but not Pixel Shader 2.0

If Matrox makes up another lie as excuse on not suporting this I will also consider geting my money back!

[bsdgeek]

Re: Parhelia Features

Originally posted by Amiga Blitter
It's incredible. I have buy a card like a ferrari but it run like a fiat 500. Matrox enfatizes some features of the card at the parhelia launch. QUAD TEXTURING 64 .... VERTEX SHADERS 2.0 ETC. bUT WHERE ARE THEASE FEATURES?
I want to send back my parhelia card.

It is time for the GFFX?

CAN mATROX BE SUED FOR THIS?

Are you saying that the Parhelia is not doing quad texturing?

[[GDI]Raptor]

Re: Re: Parhelia Features

Originally posted by bsdgeek
Are you saying that the Parhelia is not doing quad texturing?

64 Super Sample Texture Filtering

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/technology/supersample.cfm

[Kruzin]

There is already a thread going about Parhelia's features (or apparent lack thereof).
I don't think we need another.

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41603

[TdB]

the "64 super sample texture filtering" white paper you linked to, only states 64 samples per clock, and with a 4 pipe architecture, this would mean 16 samples per pixel, which is what "tap 2" actually means. I think everybody including me and all the reviewers misunderstood that particlar "word game".