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Product:
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB Dual Head
Company: Matrox
Website: http://www.matrox.com
Estimated Street Price: £150/$149.95
Review By: Byron Hinson
The Features
If you have been into computers for the
last 4 years or so, you will know that Matrox used to be the kings of 2D
graphics in terms of both quality and speed. With the invention of 3D
graphics cards Matrox, unfortunately lost a lot of ground to 3Dfx and
NVidia. Since then Matrox has tried to get back into business with the
release of the G200 (Which didn't have a OpenGL ICD on release) which
wasn't a major performer. But now they are back with the G400, so how does
their new card match up to the competition now?
Here are the basic features of the new
card:
- .25 micron, five layer
metal process technology
- 256-bit DualBus
architecture
- True 128-bit external
bus to video memory
- Full AGP 2X/4X with
Multi-threaded Bus Mastering
- 32MB 6ns SGRAM
- True Environment
Mapped Bump Mapping
- Vibrant Color Quality2
(VCQ2) rendering
- Matrox DualHead
Display Technology
- 32-bit Z-buffer
including 8-bit stencil buffer
- Symmetric Rendering
Architecture
- 300MHz RAMDAC with
UltraSharp RAMDAC technology
- Display up to
2048x1536x32-bit
- Bilinear, trilinear,
and anisotropic filtering
- Single cycle
multi-texturing
- Texture sizes up to
2048x2048
- Full scene anti-aliasing
- Full hardware
subpicture support for DVD playback
- Matrox SoftDVD Player
- Rage's Expendable
included
- Software bundle:
Micrografx Picture Publisher 8 and Simply 3D™ 3, Expendable™ from
Rage Software, the Matrox Software DVD Player and PointCast Network
2D resolutions and colours¹
| Colors |
16 MB |
Colors |
32 MB |
| 256 |
2048 x 1536 |
256 |
2048 x 1536 |
| 65 K |
2048 x 1536 |
65 K |
2048 x 1536 |
| 16.8 M |
2048 x 1536 |
16.8 M |
2048 x 1536 |
3D resolutions and colours
| Colors |
16 MB |
Colors |
32 MB |
| 65 K |
2048 x 1536 |
65 K |
2048 x 1536 |
| 16.8 M |
1600 x 1200 |
16.8 M |
2048 x 1536 |
Maximum refresh rates²
| |
Millennium
G400 MAX |
Millennium
G400 |
| Refresh
Rates |
Vertical
(Hz) |
Horizontal
(KHz) |
Vertical
(Hz) |
Horizontal
(KHz) |
| 2048 x 1536 |
85 |
130 |
70 |
110 |
| 1920 x 1440 |
85 |
130 |
75 |
115 |
| 1800 x 1440 |
85 |
130 |
80 |
120 |
| 1600 x 1200 |
100 |
130 |
100 |
130 |
| 1280 x 1024 |
120 |
130 |
120 |
130 |
| 1152 x 864 |
140 |
130 |
140 |
130 |
| 1024 x 768 |
160 |
130 |
160 |
130 |
| 800 x 600 |
200 |
130 |
200 |
130 |
| 640 x 480 |
200 |
130 |
200 |
130 |
¹ Single display
mode
² Maximum refresh rates are attainable when using
8- or 16-bit color palettes. Maximums may not be attainable at the
highest display resolutions with a 24- or 32-bit color palette
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