Posted on 6/29/2002


"GD: Under which scenarios do you think we'll see the performance advantage of Parhelia over the current crop of video cards?

Kamran/Matrox
"Well, with three monitors hooked up, I’d say we beat everyone else by a factor of everything versus nothing. But for traditional setups, our performance advantage will kick in with image quality settings pushed to the max. It is well understood that Matrox opted for pushing the envelope on the features and quality side rather than on the clock rate side. We feel that we achieve great performance in the default quality modes, and so wanted to sustain that great performance with quality pushed to the max. There have been quite a few benchmarks run on our card that are now public and I think that the conclusions that have been drawn are that with FAA-16x enabled we usually beat the highest scores that other video cards can provide with their maximum AA quality set."

He went on to say that the Matrox also out-performs computer systems without video cards installed by a factor of 10 to 0 and my little kitty laptops.

Full Interview:
http://www.gamersdepot.com/interviews/matrox/001.htm