It's official. "Introducing Matrox Parhelia™-512"

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Immerse yourself in High Fidelity Graphics

"High fidelity refers to a superb reproduction, which is completely true to the original. The engineering vision fulfilled by Matrox Parhelia-512 was to achieve the highest-fidelity graphics with the truest representation of color, 3D, text and images created by a single source of incomparable quality, performance and features."

- Lorne Trottier, Matrox president
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http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia512/home.cfm

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Also from Toms Hardware:

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Matrox describes Parhelia as the first 512-bit GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in the world, which accounts for the "512" that appears in the full name for the chip. It comes with a 256-bit wide memory bus, which is able to transfer 512 bits of data per clock, because of its double data rate capability. This may just be a number to you, but in practice, this is some rather amazing stuff. It increases the pin count of the chip by an incredible number and it makes the PCB of the graphics card a lot more complex too. There's a good reason why neither NVIDIA, nor ATi have tried that yet. Right now, Parhelia demo boards have no less than 8 layers! At 300 MHz memory clock (600 MHz DDR), Parhelia has a whopping memory bandwidth of 20 GB per second. By comparison, NVIDIA's top product, the GeForce 4 Ti4600, just reaches 10.4 GB/s. However, with its Lightspeed Memory Architecture II, NVIDIA has provided its graphics cards with a very effective Crossbar Memory Controller, lossless Z-compression and further optimizations.
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So much for 'Look at the specs, it's a hoax'! These are the specs, and it's no hoax:-)

For more see:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q2/020514/index.html
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Aahh... The things you have to worry about

Really terribe eh? hehe! This gfx card does seem VERY AMIGA. As for 3 17' monitors on one desk? 3 yes, 17" NO! I want 3 25" monitors ;-) Or maybe I'll settle for 3 19" LCD monitors.. Ahh.. The tortue:-D

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A little faith people! Hyperion never lied to youi before.

Keep it up and I will be a Hyperion cheerleader, just don't expect me to wear a cheerleader costume! That would be scary!!  :-o

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was hoping for this being supported too, but it seems that Hyperion needs to get Warp3D beefed up a bit before it will be supported.

From what I've read this may very well be in the first Boing Bag update after OS4.0 is released. Boy would that be sweet!

Here is my thought. AGP slot - Parlehia-512(w/3 monitors), first PCI slot, PCI All-In-Wonder-Radeon(1 monitor and TV/VCR hookup).

4 Monitor output! 4 'screens'... yummy!! Just think of the possibilities.. :-o

Games with requirements "Minimum 3 monitors required" !!
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I think I heard elsewhere that this will be an 8x AGP card. If that's the case then I'm assuming the A1 won't make the most of it, right?

Nothing will likely make use of AGP 8x for quite some time. It's doubtful there will be much difference in AGP2x and 4x either.

I wunder how much it will cost? /me looks at existing card in PC with evil glint in eye...

Figure the ballpark of $400 to $500USD for the first couple of models. Those are the numbers floating around. Not surprising considering everytime a new Nvidia Geforce product comes out it is in this price range, and this card is WAAAY more technical.

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But will AMIGANAUTS show their gratitude and buy it, in enough numbers to make other manufacturers sit up and notice??

If drivers are available, this will likely be the #1 GFX card choice of Amigans. Considering this is going to be a very highend card and NOT cheap, sales to Amigans should put 'Amiga' on the map in Matrox's eyes. A few thousand sales to 'Amigans', IF they know it is going to Amigans will sit nicely.
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