Parhelia Pathetic ?
Earlier today the German edition of Tom’s Hardware accidentally posted the first Parhelia benchmark review, a day ahead of NDA. Whilst it has now been removed, a ton of sites managed to grab the benchmark results and post summaries. Whilst it might all be in error, the news is all bad for Matrox’s new wonder card - NVidia’s Ti4600 and ATI’s 8500 managed to smack the card around every which way in every benchmark, sometimes doubling the Parhelia’s results. The NDA lifts tomorrow, so it’ll be interesting to see if it’s all a PR ploy by one of the rival companies, or if Matrox’s next gen card is a big 3D flop.
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posted by devo · at 2:12 am · filed under News
Following up - it seems that the benchmarks were right. But there are a lot of caveats to the scores, and everyone agrees the 2D and general image quality is top notch. As the review says:
This is echoed in just about every other site, with Anandtech summing up the core advantages as:- Games that make extensive use of quad-texturing
- Games with lots of complex pixel/vertex shader programs
- Fragment Anti-Aliasing
- Surround Gaming (3 monitors)
The problem being, for gamers, that just about zero games support that stuff right now.