| From: | gary |
| Date: | 6 Oct 2000 at 19:11:01 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: new MATROX G800 rumours (also 3dfx) |
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 19:57:33 +0200, owner-open@amiga.com "g'o'tz ohnesorge"
<gohnesorge@lh-computertechnik.de> wrote:
>Zoltan Hunt wrote:
>
>> Just getting back to the message subject (Re: AMIOPEN: new MATROX G800 ),
>> somebody mentioned that the next Matrox card might have more than one chip
>> on board. I know 3Dfx does this (see the 6000- 3 chips with their own fans,
>> scary looking!). ATI's stuff can do this to. Can the same be done with
>> Matrox, say 2 chips rendering alternate lines?
>
>Voodoo supports this for rendering each next line in a single frame by another
>chip, with the chips talking to each other in order to coordinate it, if I
>understood that right.
>
>ATi for the Fury MAXX just plugs two of their chips on one card, each with own
>memory, and lets them render a full frame each, with the driver switching
>between the chips' outputs each time after the next frame got completed there.
>
>In other words, everyone could do it the way ATi does, and if someone sees a
>market for an Amiga with such a concept, no problem to build it. Whether Matrox
>will go either way with their chip design or their own consumer products, I
>have no idea.
And developers should keep in mind another couple of important elements ...
1. We and Matrox are "developmental" partners. What comes from this may be
totally different from what comes on a standard Windows/Linux PC.
2. At this time, most OS's take advantage of roughly 80% (or less) of any
graphic cards REAL abilities. We are not carrying the same legacy that
Windows (for instance) is so we can go into this taking advantage in as
many ways as possible for us.
3. You can not compare video specs from a Windows or Linux PC to a
non-hosted system like we are building until it is finished.
Catch the Dream ... Amiga Dream Team
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