Matrox announces three Luma graphics cards based on Intel's Arc A310 and Arc A380 silicon.
Matrox Launches Single-Slot Intel Arc GPUs : Read more
Matrox Launches Single-Slot Intel Arc GPUs : Read more
Did anyone here also own a Matrox Millennium GPU, back in the days of yore, pre-3dfx? I owned a couple, IIRC. Best 2D GPU available at the time. Everyone expected Matrox to do really well with its 3d card--the Matrox Mystique--which I also owned--it was very poor, actually. Matrox just sort of faded away in that market. 3dfx walked off with it. The Matrox are still good for 2d displays today, I hear. Just thought I'd ask! Looks like that is where they are shooting for with the Intel chips and architectures.
I was owned the millennium 1 millennium 2 using good old window ram (wram) Mystique m3d was the power VR chip debut.Did anyone here also own a Matrox Millennium GPU, back in the days of yore, pre-3dfx? I owned a couple, IIRC. Best 2D GPU available at the time. Everyone expected Matrox to do really well with its 3d card--the Matrox Mystique--which I also owned--it was very poor, actually. Matrox just sort of faded away in that market. 3dfx walked off with it. The Matrox are still good for 2d displays today, I hear. Just thought I'd ask! Looks like that is where they are shooting for with the Intel chips and architectures.
I was a big fan of Matrox back in the day. I didn't have any of the Matrox 2D cards, but I did own the Matrox Millennium G200 AGP with 8MB SGRAM, and after that the G400 16 MB SDRAM, and after that the G400 with 32 MB. All of the above were used mostly for gaming. I long for the old days when there were so many different companies producing chips and graphics cards.Did anyone here also own a Matrox Millennium GPU, back in the days of yore, pre-3dfx? I owned a couple, IIRC. Best 2D GPU available at the time. Everyone expected Matrox to do really well with its 3d card--the Matrox Mystique--which I also owned--it was very poor, actually. Matrox just sort of faded away in that market. 3dfx walked off with it. The Matrox are still good for 2d displays today, I hear. Just thought I'd ask! Looks like that is where they are shooting for with the Intel chips and architectures.
Did anyone here also own a Matrox Millennium GPU, back in the days of yore, pre-3dfx? I owned a couple, IIRC. Best 2D GPU available at the time. Everyone expected Matrox to do really well with its 3d card--the Matrox Mystique--which I also owned--it was very poor, actually. Matrox just sort of faded away in that market. 3dfx walked off with it. The Matrox are still good for 2d displays today, I hear. Just thought I'd ask! Looks like that is where they are shooting for with the Intel chips and architectures.
If Matrox decided to pick up the A750, maybe I'd try my luck checking if one of the few people I remember the names of (I'm pathologically bad at remembering names) are still there to ask what the employee shop prices are like
In the early and mid-80s (pre-Amazon and Newegg), I used to purchase most of my computer hardware from a local computer shop in north Dallas. I was always able to pick up Matrox cards at a significant reduction over the MSRP. I'd drop by there every couple of weeks to shop around.If Matrox decided to pick up the A750, maybe I'd try my luck checking if one of the few people I remember the names of (I'm pathologically bad at remembering names) are still there to ask what the employee shop prices are like
Yeah, but they're such a shadow of their former self that it hardly matters. They went from designing their own GPUs to now just being a board partner. They used to compete with ATI, but now they barely even compete with any of the Taiwanese video card makers.I check on them every few years to see if they're still in business, and glad to see they found their niche in the market.