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Issue Date: April/May 2000

Highest speed graphics boards poised to revolutionise how people use their computers

1 April 2000

Matrox Graphics has announced the first 2D, 3D, video, TV-out and dual display graphics boards based on the Matrox G400 chip series: the high-speed Matrox Millennium G400 for the most demanding business user.
The Matrox Millennium G400 cards deliver realistic image quality in the most demanding business applications without compromising performance. Powered by the Matrox G400 chip, the Millennium G400 16 MB achieves an impressive 198 million WinMarks at 1600 x 1200 resolution at 24 bpp on Ziff Davis' WinBench 99 Business and scores 920 on 3D WinBench99. A powerhouse of breakthrough technologies and next-generation features, the Millennium G400 graphics boards are equipped with a 3D rendering engine that achieves fast single pass multitexturing with 32 bit rendering, 32 bit textures, 32 bit Z-buffer with 8 bit stencil, full AGP texturing and anisotropic filtering. Fitted with 16 or 32 MB of high-speed SGRAM, the Millennium G400 provides fast, ultra-crisp displays with its 300 MHz RAMDAC.
The Matrox Millennium G400 MAX (retail version)
The Millennium G400 MAX gears performance into overdrive with an increase in raw speed of more than 30% over the Millennium G400. Targeted directly at professionals who require an exceptionally large desktop display, the card nearly maxes out Ziff Davis' 3D WinBench 99, scoring 1080 at 1024 x 768 resolution at 16 bpp. Supercharged with all of the Millennium G400's unique, must-have features, the G400 MAX is fitted with 32 MB of high-bandwidth SGRAM and includes a 360 MHz RAMDAC capable of driving high-end monitors at resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, 32 bpp at 85 Hz.
DualHead display
DualHead Display promises to alter the way people use Windows by supporting two independent displays with a single AGP graphics board. This technology allows users to personalise their computing environments with two RGB monitors, an RGB monitor and a TV, an RGB monitor and a digital flat panel or two analog flat panels. The DualHead Display functionality is made possible at a chip level with the G400 Chip Series' two internal cathode ray tube controllers (CRTCs) and at a board level with the two HD-15 connectors and S video/composite cable.
Combined with powerful productivity-enhancing features, DualHead Display allows users to view multiple applications in a variety of new display modes. In DualHead Zoom mode, users can zoom any region of their desktop to the second display, which is especially useful for graphics and design professionals who will use this feature for pixel-by-pixel retouching. DualHead Multi-Display mode unleashes the full power of a Windows desktop displayed across two screens; users can open different applications on each display for enhanced multitasking or extend one application across both displays for increased productivity and ease of use. In DualHead DVD-Max mode, end-users can output a video stream or DVD title full-screen to TV without losing their desktop on the primary display. In DualHead Clone mode, users can duplicate their desktop onto a monitor, projector, or a big screen TV - unlike many other TV-out solutions, DualHead Clone does not lock the refresh rate of the primary display to the same refresh rate as the TV.
Matrox
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