What happened to MATROX ?

[Scooby-DoobyDoo]

Just wondering what happened to Matrox, I remember they were a force to be reconned with once when I got my 2mb Matrox Mystique. The Voodoo came along and give them a run for their money.

Funny how the graphics market can only seem to have 2 front runners like ATI - Nvidia.

 

[Mr Spoon]

they stuck with crapy and expensive "graphics" cards rather than 3d cards, no wonder they dissapeared lol.

 

[akirru]

To be fair I don't think they could compete with Nvidia and ATi from development cost point of view. So I guess they gave up but I think they still do well in the Professional card business?? I think they might have done better if they had involved third parties like Nvidia and Ati.

 

[FrankJH]

They are still going very strongly - just more in regards to modelling and other mid to high end graphics

 

[p4radox]

I used to have a Matrox G200 - that was a cracking card.

 

[Scooby-DoobyDoo]

Yep I had a G200 too. Was a gooden.

Also I just remembered I sold about 200 Matrox Paharas (or somthing like that) to the government when I worked in IT sales.

 

[The Running Man]

they still do a lot of cards, but are mainly business/prosumer orientated

 

[ernysmuntz]

Just wondering what happened to Matrox, I remember they were a force to be reconned with once when I got my 2mb Matrox Mystique. The Voodoo came along and give them a run for their money.

Funny how the graphics market can only seem to have 2 front runners like ATI - Nvidia.

lol, the Matrox Mystique was pretty pants if I remember correctly, it could play a few decent games...Jedi Knight comes to mind, but it couldn't even do transparency!!!

I had the 4mb version ....

Defo wasn't a Voodoo beater!

The G200 was their best card that hit the big time....they haven't had anything decent since...G400 couldn't keep up with the competetion, and the Parehelia or however its spelt wasn't for games.

So on the whole they've always been into 2d\3d\graphics work.

 

[Snapshot]

I've only just stopped using a G550 and still have a PCI Millennium II in the parts bin. As I don't need 3D, a PCIe P650 would probably be ideal but I'm not paying £150-ish for one.

Jonathan

 

[p4radox]

you call that a cracking card? your a bigger fool that i thought. even a geforce 1 would lash the crap out of that card.

Yes, but I was about 10, and it ran Red Alert 2 at 1024*768. It must have been good, surely...

edit: And it's still in use right now as I type. Several other graphics cards I have owned haven't lasted that long.

 

[cavemanoc]

They also make some very interesting peripherals - the Triple Head to Go is awesome!

 

[Bomag]

you call that a cracking card? your a bigger fool that i thought. even a geforce 1 would lash the crap out of that card.

The G200 was out a good 6 months before the TNT 1 and was the best card there was as it was the first real 3D DX5 card. The G400 was even better, it may have been very slightly slower than a TNT2 but the PQ was so much beetter.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

why don;t you compare your g400 to g80? the price is almost the same

 

[ernysmuntz]

The G200 was out a good 6 months before the TNT 1 and was the best card there was as it was the first real 3D DX5 card. The G400 was even better, it may have been very slightly slower than a TNT2 but the PQ was so much beetter.

Wasn't the G200 the first card to do hardware bump mapping....

...something like that anyway.

 

[FrankJH]

Wasn't the G200 the first card to do hardware bump mapping....

...something like that anyway.

I think it was - I came across Matrox when Dell installed an original Millenium 2Mb +2mb on daughtercard in the only PC I have bought off the shelf in the mid 90's and it was the class of the field at that point.

 

[Mr-White]

matrox are still around, they sell mainly video editing kit

MW