Our IT guys are questioning why we buy Matrox cards for our AutoCAD machines. When we first bought Matrox cards about 8 years ago and have bought them ever since. They are wondering if we are buying them for a reason or because that's all we've ever bought.
I feel that as they are aimed at 2D, which is what the majority of our CAD stuff is, they are the ideal card. They want to go to nVidia or because they are half the price with twice the RAM. I think they think that more RAM means better images and faster graphics. I thought large amounts of RAM get used for texturing and anything about 64 meg doesn't really affect depth of colour or resolution What I can't find is justifiable figures on why we have Matrox's. I know the RAMDAC rating on the Matrox cards have always been excellent but I'm not sure how they really compare to the better 3D cards. I do 3D stuff like using MAX so I'm not adverse to going to nVidia or an ATi based card, (I have a Geforce 4 at home). I also do Photoshop stuff so my needs are slightly different to our other caddies.
Can anyone offer any opinions, info or sites useful for this question?
Thanks and regards,
Redav
I feel that as they are aimed at 2D, which is what the majority of our CAD stuff is, they are the ideal card. They want to go to nVidia or because they are half the price with twice the RAM. I think they think that more RAM means better images and faster graphics. I thought large amounts of RAM get used for texturing and anything about 64 meg doesn't really affect depth of colour or resolution What I can't find is justifiable figures on why we have Matrox's. I know the RAMDAC rating on the Matrox cards have always been excellent but I'm not sure how they really compare to the better 3D cards. I do 3D stuff like using MAX so I'm not adverse to going to nVidia or an ATi based card, (I have a Geforce 4 at home). I also do Photoshop stuff so my needs are slightly different to our other caddies.
Can anyone offer any opinions, info or sites useful for this question?
Thanks and regards,
Redav