Gráfica Matrox Chooses AMD GPU for Next Generation Multi-display Graphics Cards

[muddymind]

Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced that its next line of multi-display graphics cards will be based on AMD GPUs and their corresponding professional grade display drivers. Leveraging over 35 years of experience in board design and manufacturing, Matrox will expand and complement its line of PCI Express-compliant graphics cards for demanding commercial applications. The soon-to-be-launched product line will enable unique features that solve real-world problems in enterprise, industrial, pro A/V, digital signage, security, command and control, and other professional applications. Matrox customers will continue to benefit from the exceptional stability, usability and versatility enabled by Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software, which will be integrated to work seamlessly with AMD's professional display drivers.

"AMD is excited to work with Matrox to deliver compelling industry leading GPUs for their professional users," said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. "AMD delivers solutions, backed by rock solid drivers, that allow users to realize the full potential of their workstations and produce outstanding results backed by high quality hardware and software application support."

"The AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU we selected for our new product line allows Matrox to continue designing and manufacturing professional, reliable video cards. Matrox add-in boards strike the perfect balance between video output density, performance and power consumption," said David Chiappini, vice president of research and development, Matrox Graphics. "Our enterprise and industrial customers will continue to benefit from Matrox multi-display board designs, easy-to-use PowerDesk software, direct customer support and long product life cycles."

Key features of the selected AMD GPU include 28 nm technology with 1.5 billion transistors; DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.2 compatibility; shader model 5.0; PCI Express 3.0 and 128-bit memory interface.

Critical productivity-enhancing features available with Matrox PowerDesk software will continue to be supported on the next line of Matrox graphics cards designed with AMD GPUs. The robust, field-proven Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software for Windows lets users easily configure and manage multi-display setups. It offers professional users a comprehensive set of tools to deploy and control a variety of display configurations including stretched or independent desktops, clone mode, pivot, bezel management and edge overlap.

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Matrox, matrox... quem te viu e quem te vê Se não tivesse sido aquela banhada que foi a parhelia podíamos hoje ter mais um player forte no mundo das gráficas

 

[xuleca]

O reinado da matrox já acabou à alguns anos. A minha primeira grafica profissional foi a Matrox G200 e depois a G400 DualHead que na altura era um espectáculo, já dava para ligar à TV para ver filmes.
Velhos tempos

 

[Nemesis11]

Só para curiosidade, existem novos produtos a sair com gráficas da Matrox.
A nível de servidores, em que eles têm um gpu embedded, muitas vezes que só serve para as instalações, há muitas boards recentes com a Matrox G200e e G200ew.

Quanto à noticia em si, fico um bocado triste.
Para recordar, tenho (encostada) uma das ultimas placas feitas por eles. Uma P690.

 

[VelhoDoRestelo]

Velhos velhos tempos... É uma pena uma das brands que ainda poderia de alguma forma fazer frente aos dois gigantes do mercado de processamento gráfico para homemarket...

 

[V3ctor]

Lembro-me de ver as specs da Parhelia e achava que vinha lá canhão... specs off the chart para a altura bus a 256bits (mind blown)

E depois saiu um gpu bastante fraco com erros de HW (no seu core) que nem com drivers ia lá... fora o fail de não ser DirectX 9 compliant, com os vertex shaders não serem Shader Model 2.0 (acho que antes só havia 1.1 com DX8.1)

Fora que meses depois apareceram as R300 (ATi Radeon 9700/9800) que rebentaram tudo...

Velhos tempos...