We're you dissapointed with the Matrox Parhelia? Well Beyond 3d has done another review of this card, with the results from when it launched, and the results now. Is there a change?
And so it was that in May 2002 Matrox announced the Parhelia-512 GPU, an all new chip designed to interest gamer and professional alike. However, as soon as the benchmarks hit the web things did not seem all that fine again as the new Matrox entrant had trouble shining in terms of performance against NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti, let alone what was in store from ATI a few more month down the line. Was this performance down to immaturity of drivers, or was the hardware too slow? In this review we'll take a look at some early drivers and see how things have evolved with their latest driver updates. We'll also see what else Parhelia has to offer that other boards don't...
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Beyond 3d