Gamespot reveals P clock speed?!

[Haig]

oops

[ben2207]

Hehe , I post faster than Haig :P

[GT98]

Very interesting.....

[DuRaNgO]

Hmmm, I wonder if my old MC-1000 will fit on the card

What do you think Greebe

[maharajah]

Just finished reading Haig's reply on the matrox forum:

CaineTanathos: so no 250 standard ?

Haig: You can probably get that by O/C'ing it.

Mmm... overclocking goodness

[mdhome]

Does anyone actually believe that this card will overclock much? Personally I would prefer to have it run stably at 220mhz.

Regards Michael

[roadie]

i am sure some people will manage to get some high speeds out of it just for benchmarking, but i reckon it will go up around 10% over stock stably with good cooling.

[Maggi]

What's OCing ?

[CaineTanathos]

I hope 14 % overclock is possible, then I will have my 250Mhz

[Voyager3D]

I want to order my Parhelia with water cooling...

[GT98]

Originally posted by Voyager3D
I want to order my Parhelia with water cooling...

I think Greebe might beat you too that

[Slougi]

I somehow have a feeling that the parhelia will oc pretty well with some good cooling. Don't ask me why, it's just a feeling I have

[DuRaNgO]

Can you say: Celeron

[Indiana]

In any case, who cares about clock speeds??!?
It's only the performance I care of - at what clock speed they achieve this doesn't matter...

(thinking of the P4 here, I recently got a 2GHz Northwood and this d*mn cripple-CPU is really noticeably slower than my slightly oc'ed Athlon1700+!!)

[CaineTanathos]

indiana overclock your northwood too then
they are made for it

again some fiction roadmap

http://freespace.virgin.net/m.warner/RoadmapQ302.htm

here is what they write about ati new card:

"ATI Radeon 9x00 (R300) is expected to be released in September. The Radeon 3 is expected to be a fully DirectX 9 capable part, featuring a 350Mhz core and 400Mhz memory clock manufactured on a 0.15 micron process. The R300 is expected to feature 8 pixel pipelines with 3 texture units per pipeline, giving a raw fillrate of 2.8GPixels/s and 8.4Gtexels/s (at 350Mhz). The available memory bandwidth at 400Mhz DDR will be 12.8Gb/s.

Less powerful versions of the R300 core are expected to be available for the budget and business markets. The RV300 core will feature 4 pixel pipelines, as opposed to 8, and will have a less powerful geometry engine. The RL300 will be the least powerful member of the Radeon 3 series, providing an even less powerful geometry engine."

So lets take a look at the numbers
2.8GPixels/s and 8.4Gtexels/ wow that much eh, ah ok lets see the memory bandwith , what only 12,8 Gb/s

isn't that a bit funny , more than the double texture fillrate of a P. with half the bandwith (ok a bit more ) of a parhelia ...

lets talk about efficiency:
which one to choose
the R300 who throws away performance
or the parhelia who has I think (just like the G400/max) has the highest efficiency ...

Go matrox , go Matrox