G800!!!

[alessandro]

Please Matrox give as at least 900MTextels/sec in this Baby!!!!!!
Ant, if you know something about the specs of the G800 ,at least tell as if it will be more powerful from the NV15 chipset

[Rimfaxe]

Oups !

It is not a good thing when Ant, hasn't answerd it yet ! I sure hope he is asleep (or something)...

I wounder, first the G450 and then the G800. Or just wait for the G800 ?!? Tricky...

U all have a lovely day now ! I know that I will.

/Rimfaxe

[alessandro]

Rimfaxe,

The G450 is just a G400 with hardware T&L and some other minor changes.
The G800 is a completly new chip and set to be at least 2 times faster than the G400MAX

[iklebrit]

at matroxusers it says that the g450 will have software t&l not hardware!!!!
the g800 will!!!
seems pointless to even have a g450 to me )
seen as one will be realeased quite soon after the other!

[UncleJoe]

Read agin
G450: T-hardware & L-software ...

J.

[gbm]

An old story for those fascinated with "hardware T&L":

Back in 80's Motorola designed the MC68030 CPU. The CPU used an external floating point unit (like Intel 386). The FPU could execute many instructions, including simple and transcendental functions (trigonometric, etc.). Later Motorola designed the successor to '030, the MC68040. They decided to integrate the FPU on chip (like in Intel 486). Unfortunately they couldn't afford enough silicon real estate to implement full FPU. So they decided to build the FPU that could only handle basic operations and provide the emulation software to handle all the more complicated ones (keeping full binary code compatiblity with '030+FPU). '040 with software/emulated transcendental functions proved to be faster than '030 with fulll hardware FPU in all cases.

The point is: if you want to get speedy stuff, hardware implementation may or may not be a good way to achieve this. The fact that someone does something in hardware doesn't imply that this implementation is faster than the software one.

[Iskandhar Shahril]

PLEAZZZZEEEEE MATROX!!!! GIVE ME QUAD-HEAD SUPPORT!!!!!!!! IS IT TOO MUCH TOO ASK?????

CHEERS......

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PIII 500MHz@560MHz
Gigabyte BX2000+ w/UDMA66
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer SCSI 32X CD-ROM
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD UMDA66
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head@MAX Settings
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
Twin 17" LG Flatron (Primary & Secondary)

[Cole]

mmmmm...the new cards sound awesome. i'm hoping for 64MB-128MB DDR on the G800, and 32MB DDR on the G450.

[Maggi]

Seeing the fact that there is a QuadHead G100 and G200, I'm pretty sure we'll see also another QuadHead in new G-flavor sometimes ...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[alessandro]

How about the G800 to have 4 G400 chip on the board...that's (333MegaTextels)x4=1332MTextels in theory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Maggi]

Hey Goc,
http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/p...00_mm/home.htm

...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[Maggi]

and
http://www.matrox.com/mga/press_room...l/g200_mms.htm



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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...


[This message has been edited by Maggi (edited 17 January 2000).]

[alessandro]

We know you are not a female Markus!!!!!

[Paddy]

G800!!!!
I go away for a couple of weeks.....

Oh well,
Behind with the times again.

[Maggi]

Hey Alessandro ... not everybody yet ...