Posted by: Administrator
on September 30, 2005 02:45 AM
It seems Matrox lost its way when they did the G450 which was a cheaper, castrated G400 ; the G550 was basically a 450 "again", and five years down the road they're trying to pull the same rabbit off the hat. Come on, a 32MB video card in 2005, priced at $125 ? That price tag can't be justified by power consumption alone.
Check out these benchmarks, done with a Radeon8500/128MB on a PIII-S 1400 with 512MB of PC133 SDRAM :
4 reps @ 3042.3616 msec ( 0.3/sec): GetImage XY 500x500 square The result was expected : the A64 + G550 PCI-E gets trounced by a three year old PC. My bet is that a PCI Radeon 7500/8500/9000/9200 on ebay will end up faster than a PCI-E Matrox G550...
The G550 needs a binary driver to enable DVI, whereas most Radeons have now opensource 2D/3D drivers.
Seems like Matrox has a loser on their hands (again). Too bad, they were doing good stuff ten years ago. I had great hopes when the G450 opensource 3D driver was released, that they would continue to support opensource. Two thumbs down.
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high price, only 32MB, bad perfs, binary driver
Posted by: Administrator on September 30, 2005 02:45 AMCheck out these benchmarks, done with a Radeon8500/128MB on a PIII-S 1400 with 512MB of PC133 SDRAM :
3000 reps @ 0.4891 msec ( 2040.0/sec): 500x500 stippled rectangle (161x145 stipple)
3000 reps @ 0.3535 msec ( 2830.0/sec): 500x500 tiled rectangle (161x145 tile)
3000 reps @ 0.3552 msec ( 2820.0/sec): 500x500 tiled rectangle (216x208 tile)
200000 reps @ 0.0052 msec (192000.0/sec): 500-pixel line segment
300000 reps @ 0.0049 msec (206000.0/sec): 500-pixel line
20000 reps @ 0.0599 msec ( 16700.0/sec): 500x500 rectangle outline
10000 reps @ 0.1249 msec ( 8010.0/sec): 500-pixel circle
10000 reps @ 0.1031 msec ( 9700.0/sec): 500-pixel filled ellipse
4000 reps @ 0.2528 msec ( 3960.0/sec): Fill 300x300 stippled trapezoid (161x145 stipple)
1200000 reps @ 0.0010 msec (970000.0/sec): Char in 60-char line (9x15)
640000 reps @ 0.0023 msec (429000.0/sec): Char in 30-char rgb line (Charter 24)
3000 reps @ 0.3602 msec ( 2780.0/sec): Scroll 500x500 pixels
2800 reps @ 0.3709 msec ( 2700.0/sec): Copy 500x500 from window to window
3200 reps @ 0.3383 msec ( 2960.0/sec): Copy 500x500 from pixmap to window
4000 reps @ 0.2500 msec ( 4000.0/sec): Copy 500x500 1-bit deep plane
80 reps @ 13.5346 msec ( 73.9/sec): PutImage XY 500x500 square
4 reps @ 3042.3616 msec ( 0.3/sec): GetImage XY 500x500 square
The result was expected : the A64 + G550 PCI-E gets trounced by a three year old PC.
My bet is that a PCI Radeon 7500/8500/9000/9200 on ebay will end up faster than a PCI-E Matrox G550...
The G550 needs a binary driver to enable DVI, whereas most Radeons have now opensource 2D/3D drivers.
Seems like Matrox has a loser on their hands (again). Too bad, they were doing good stuff ten years ago. I had great hopes when the G450 opensource 3D driver was released, that they would continue to support opensource. Two thumbs down.
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