Yeah, I'm not always sure how accurate Tom's is, anymore, either. Though I had thought he was on a bit of a GeForce kick lately. And what wasn't accurately shown was that really, these three cards (GF4Ti, Radeon 8500, and Matrox) weren't that far apart, performance-wise.
The Paraplegic (or whatever the heck it's called) :-D should perform fairly well for whatever application you throw it in. (I, personally, don't care much for it, but that's more my opinion of Matrox than anything else...)