Matrox PCIe Provides 8 DisplayPort Outputs
Matrox Graphics revealed its single-slot card offering 8 DisplayPort outputs.
Yesterday we wrote about AMD's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and six display ports. Today Matrox Graphics is upping the ante with its just-announced single-slot M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card with a whopping eight DisplayPort or DVI single-link outputs. The company even suggested throwing an additional card into your rig for a... hang on to this one now... sixteen display monster configuration!
Alright, so we're wondering what exactly consumers will do with eight outputs--that would make one massive desktop (and a lost of mouse work). Matrox Graphics conveniently has the answer. "The M9188 is designed specifically for professional monitoring environments that require visualization of large amounts of data at once to enhance mission-critical decision making," said Ron Berty, Business Development Manager, Matrox Graphics.
On the technical side, the PCIe card provides 2 GB of memory, resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 per DisplayPort output, and 1920 x 1200 per DVI output. The card also features various desktop management modes including independent and stretched, and can even be configured with many other M-Series cards.
Obviously, this card won't come cheap. Consumers wanting a wall full of PC gaming goodness will need to fork out a whopping $1995 USD for one card. Matrox Graphics is also offering a cheaper, dual-monitor version as well, the M9128, costing consumers a meager $259 USD.We're not exactly sure what kind of horsepower the card's GPU will bring to the table, but it does support OpenGL 2.0.
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I cant even begin to explain how exceedingly ignorant this sentence is.
No one in their right mind will buy any Matrox card for any sort of PC gaming.
I cant even begin to explain how exceedingly ignorant this sentence is.
No one in their right mind will buy any Matrox card for any sort of PC gaming.
Eight monitors, wouldn't that put the monitor seam right down the middle again? (uhg)
As you can see, Matrox isn't even targeting gamers with their products. They're only in the professional sector since about a decade ago.
This sentence was written by Tom's Convenient.. I mean Tom's Hardware, so no need to bash Matrox.
They sell pro products for multi monitor single card solutions, don't think any other company could compete with them and still can't. You don't need to sell video cards for gaming to make money.
Because they diliver products like this for a niche audience.
Matrox is still a great card for 2d apps. And in many cases, cheaper for the performance when compared to AMD and Nvidia's workstation offerings. I've built a few Matrox workstations, and they've performed admirably. And for a printshop who wont be doing 3d rendering, they're still the logical choice.
2d performance has a ton more to do with Drivers than it does raw horsepower.
...who edits these things?