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According to Matrox they will introduce the first Parhelia 512 graphics card in July at an estimated retail price of ?445.80 or about $399 US: Bulk: 128MB DDR, GPU: 200 MHz, Memory: 250 MHz (DDR), Price: ~ $349 Retail: 128MB DDR, GPU: 220 MHz, Memory: 275 MHz (DDR), Price: $399 | ?445.80 Matrox Online Shop The card will be equipped with 128Mbyte of DDR-Ram clocked @ 275Mhz (550Mhz effectively) and a core clock of 220Mhz. Matrox Parhelia boards employ highly developed electronics, which-coupled with the Parhelia's dual 10-bit RAMDACs-ensure that signal quality is maintained at the highest frequency desktop settings, resulting in flicker-free, ultra-crisp displays, free of any pixel ghosting, sparkling or shadowing artifacts to deliver the highest-fidelity RGB, DVI and TV outputs.
The Matrox Parhelia boards deliver the fastest 2D performance, and are the first full-speed AGP 4X devices capable of accelerating 3D across three monitors. All boards offer an incredible range of cutting-edge 2D and 3D features, including 10-bit GigaColor Technology, four quad-textured pixels rendered per clock, 64 Super Sample Texture Filtering, 16x Fragment Antialiasing (FAA-16x), Glyph Antialiasing, a Quad DirectX 9 Vertex Shader Array, a 36-op pixel shader array, and many more. All Matrox Parhelia graphics boards will ship standard with full-featured drivers for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 including support for Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL® . Parhelia comes with Matrox's completely new PowerDesk-HF utility suite, providing easy-to-use controls for hardware configuration and multi-display desktop management.
Parhelia is bundled with a special version of the Waytech Coloreal® advanced color calibration system. The Matrox version of Coloreal takes full advantage of the Parhelia's dual, high precision 10-bit RAMDACs and allows users to precisely color match multiple monitors.
Also included is the Matrox GigaColor plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®, allowing users to view extremely high color .TIF and .PNG files in 10-bit per color channel employing one billion simultaneously displayed colors. This applet is launched through Adobe's plug-in architecture and allows interactive viewing of images at the highest fidelity. Matrox technology demos include the stunning Reef demo-which showcases Parhelia's 3D technology and includes more than 100 realistic underwater denizens rendered simultaneously-and demos of Matrox's Hardware Displacement Mapping, which provides a new method of representing and rendering complex 3D geometry using a simple and compact data representation for the most realistic 3D scenes. Pricing and availability
At introduction, Matrox Parhelia graphics boards will be available with 128MB of DDR memory in both retail and bulk packaging. The retail packaged version of the Matrox Parhelia 128MB board will have an estimated street price of US $399 and both versions are expected to begin shipment by June 30th, 2002. Additionally, Matrox plans to bring a 64MB and a 256MB version of the Parhelia to market later this summer.
According to Matrox they will introduce the first Parhelia 512 graphics card in July at an estimated retail price of ?445.80 or about $399 US: Bulk: 128MB DDR, GPU: 200 MHz, Memory: 250 MHz (DDR), Price: ~ $349 Retail: 128MB DDR, GPU: 220 MHz, Memory: 275 MHz (DDR), Price: $399 | ?445.80 Matrox Online Shop The card will be equipped with 128Mbyte of DDR-Ram clocked @ 275Mhz (550Mhz effectively) and a core clock of 220Mhz. Matrox Parhelia boards employ highly developed electronics, which-coupled with the Parhelia's dual 10-bit RAMDACs-ensure that signal quality is maintained at the highest frequency desktop settings, resulting in flicker-free, ultra-crisp displays, free of any pixel ghosting, sparkling or shadowing artifacts to deliver the highest-fidelity RGB, DVI and TV outputs.
The Matrox Parhelia boards deliver the fastest 2D performance, and are the first full-speed AGP 4X devices capable of accelerating 3D across three monitors. All boards offer an incredible range of cutting-edge 2D and 3D features, including 10-bit GigaColor Technology, four quad-textured pixels rendered per clock, 64 Super Sample Texture Filtering, 16x Fragment Antialiasing (FAA-16x), Glyph Antialiasing, a Quad DirectX 9 Vertex Shader Array, a 36-op pixel shader array, and many more. All Matrox Parhelia graphics boards will ship standard with full-featured drivers for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000 including support for Microsoft DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL® . Parhelia comes with Matrox's completely new PowerDesk-HF utility suite, providing easy-to-use controls for hardware configuration and multi-display desktop management.
Parhelia is bundled with a special version of the Waytech Coloreal® advanced color calibration system. The Matrox version of Coloreal takes full advantage of the Parhelia's dual, high precision 10-bit RAMDACs and allows users to precisely color match multiple monitors.
Also included is the Matrox GigaColor plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®, allowing users to view extremely high color .TIF and .PNG files in 10-bit per color channel employing one billion simultaneously displayed colors. This applet is launched through Adobe's plug-in architecture and allows interactive viewing of images at the highest fidelity. Matrox technology demos include the stunning Reef demo-which showcases Parhelia's 3D technology and includes more than 100 realistic underwater denizens rendered simultaneously-and demos of Matrox's Hardware Displacement Mapping, which provides a new method of representing and rendering complex 3D geometry using a simple and compact data representation for the most realistic 3D scenes. Pricing and availability
At introduction, Matrox Parhelia graphics boards will be available with 128MB of DDR memory in both retail and bulk packaging. The retail packaged version of the Matrox Parhelia 128MB board will have an estimated street price of US $399 and both versions are expected to begin shipment by June 30th, 2002. Additionally, Matrox plans to bring a 64MB and a 256MB version of the Parhelia to market later this summer.
