New blip on the G5 radar???
Check out this link from the register: <a href="http://www.theregus.com/content/3/24920.html"; target="_blank">http://www.theregus.com/content/3/24920.html</a>;
[quote] And now the first siting of Matrox G1000 has been confirmed in Amiga Land, courtesy of Ben Herman, Hyperion Entertainment's managing partner, and manager of the AmigaOS4 project, in some posts on ANN.lu and collated by Czech Amiga News
Mr. Ben Hermans posted to ANN.lu about "spill the beans" over Matrox G1000 for OS4. "It destroys the Geforce 4 completely. We've seen it in action already." Later he posts "They have much more than samples. Yes, it will be supported by OS 4. But not right away, this type of advanced architecture requires Warp 3D V5 ("Nova"). It's simply miles ahead of anything out there on the market now. The only that comes close is the P10 from 3DLabs. I'm glad I can finally spill the beans about this. Remember all the nay-sayers whining about Matrox and saying the AmigaOne would be a pile of crap because we didn't have nVidia drivers? This goes to show that just because you are the fastest at one point in time, this doesn't ncessarily mean you will remain the fastest for ever. Think about that when you start another "x86 is so much faster than PPC" thread. PPC used to be faster than x86, then Motorola hit their infamous 500 Mhz G4 ceiling overtaken. But I can assure you that just as Matrox is reclaiming the crown now, the G5 will do the same."
Note the anti-Nvidia dig? (And also the G5 forecast). <hr></blockquote>
Is the Amiga project getting access to the G5 for testing or is this guy just speculating? Who has the goods on his reliability/credibility? Granted no time frame is listed but he seems to believe the G5 will be an x86 a$$ kicker.
Discuss....
[quote] And now the first siting of Matrox G1000 has been confirmed in Amiga Land, courtesy of Ben Herman, Hyperion Entertainment's managing partner, and manager of the AmigaOS4 project, in some posts on ANN.lu and collated by Czech Amiga News
Mr. Ben Hermans posted to ANN.lu about "spill the beans" over Matrox G1000 for OS4. "It destroys the Geforce 4 completely. We've seen it in action already." Later he posts "They have much more than samples. Yes, it will be supported by OS 4. But not right away, this type of advanced architecture requires Warp 3D V5 ("Nova"). It's simply miles ahead of anything out there on the market now. The only that comes close is the P10 from 3DLabs. I'm glad I can finally spill the beans about this. Remember all the nay-sayers whining about Matrox and saying the AmigaOne would be a pile of crap because we didn't have nVidia drivers? This goes to show that just because you are the fastest at one point in time, this doesn't ncessarily mean you will remain the fastest for ever. Think about that when you start another "x86 is so much faster than PPC" thread. PPC used to be faster than x86, then Motorola hit their infamous 500 Mhz G4 ceiling overtaken. But I can assure you that just as Matrox is reclaiming the crown now, the G5 will do the same."
Note the anti-Nvidia dig? (And also the G5 forecast). <hr></blockquote>
Is the Amiga project getting access to the G5 for testing or is this guy just speculating? Who has the goods on his reliability/credibility? Granted no time frame is listed but he seems to believe the G5 will be an x86 a$$ kicker.
Discuss....
Comments
Funny; I though the G4 was an x86 ass kicker.
Also at $229 for the low end, those cards might be a great deal. now will they support Quartz extreme and DVD playback..
As for the G5, it may or may not be an informed blurb. The guy might just have read too much of the articles posted here
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The thought of a Matrox G1000(Which can run 4 monitors simult mind you) and a G5 based Powermac is almost too much hope for. Things are coming in place. If no G5 then I'd gladly accept a 1.4-1.6 Duallie running on a new much faster Muthaboard.
As to the G1000? Matrox had good cards for many years. Then, as the article says, in recent years they seemed to go a bit quiet.
I liked it much better when more graphic card manufacturers were competing.
Funny, years ago, there were loads of graphic card makers and few of them could be bothered to give the Mac market their best. Now there are fewer, the major players are on the Mac! Irony.
I hope Matrox come in the 'high end' Mac market and blow Nvidia out the water. In return, it'll be interesting to see Nvidia's implied threat to Ati...about watching the Mac space soon... Apparently Nvidia have to more to reveal to the Mac market?
Matrox vs Nvidia in the high end?
Ati vs Nvidia in the low end?
The more vendors who use the G5...ie Amiga, Mac etc. The more chance Motorola has incentive to develop superior risc chips. Hopefully the G5 will be delivered in a timely manner to give x86 the 'dusting' I've been waiting for the last couple of years...
Hope the smoke signals bring fire...
Lemon Bon Bon
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I can't wait for MWNY to see what is finally released and put all this speculation to bed.
Interesting...
Matrox is coming back in the market.
<a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga"; target="_blank">http://www.matrox.com/mga</a>;
Have any clue on this ?
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LOL, I love it! Now I'm imagining how Samuel L. Jackson would speak if he were a computer engineer: "Does you're new iMac LOOK like a bitch!"..."Then why are you trying to fu[k it like one!!!"..."English writing muthafu[ker, does your Mac recognize it!"...."Ain't no fu[kin' ballpark! Look, maybe your idea of a GUI is different from mine, but using a Mac and putting up with Window's 'Wizards' ain't the same game, it ain't the same league, it isn't even the same fu[kin' sport!"
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LOL, I love it! Now I'm imagining how Samuel L. Jackson would speak if he were a computer engineer: "Does you're new iMac LOOK like a bitch!"..."Then why are you trying to fu[k it like one!!!"..."English writing muthafu[ker, does your Mac recognize it!"...."Ain't no fu[kin' ballpark! Look, maybe your idea of a GUI is different from mine, but using a Mac and putting up with Window's 'Wizards' ain't the same game, it ain't the same league, it isn't even the same fu[kin' sport!"</strong><hr></blockquote>
He didn't talk like that in Jurassic Park
[quote]Incredible.. 64, 96, and 128 bit color depths.. <hr></blockquote>
64Bit color depth is hardly useful , 96 and 128 are completely over the top. The human eye can distinguis some millions of color shade, but the 24Bit colorsheme used normally are all it takes to encode every different color you can see.
48Bit color shemes and maybe 64Bit make sense only where you need a lot of dynamic range, ie. in 2D-Graphics when you have to convert images a lot.
96 and 128 Bit are completely idiotic.