Matrox Millenium MGA

Matrox Millenium MGA ... Matrox Millennium's leading position in the high performance graphics market for the past two years, Matrox has once again redefined graphics technology with the Millennium II's MGA-2164W processor.

This sixth generation of the MGA chip is a completely new design of the industry standard 64-bit graphics processor and is complemented by a fast 250 MHz DAC and powerful dual-ported WRAM memory. The Matrox Millennium II offers superior graphics performance for the professional user, delivering acceleration in ultra high resolutions such as 1920 x 1200. Based on the MGA-2164W processor, it offers the fastest 2D acceleration, and enhanced 3D performance with fast Gouraud shading, hardware accelerated texture mapping as well as support for a 32-bit Z-buffer, to handle all graphics intensive operations under Windows NT 4.0. The MGA-2164W also integrates an enhanced video scaler with X and Y interpolation for faster, higher-quality video playback performance. Upgradeable to 16 MB of memory, Millennium II offers the largest screen displays with support for 1920 x 1200 resolution. You can view entire spreadsheets, tabloid size color documents, or even multiple Windows all at once without having to scroll through your applications. You can even stretch video clips to full screen while maintaining smooth motion and superior image quality. Millennium II is the ideal solution for accelerating graphically demanding 2D and 3D design applications. Its support for high resolution true color makes it the perfect match for desktop publishing, illustrations, and photo retouching. Its powerful 3D rendering engine and 32-bit Z-buffer provides a high performance solution for 3D business presentations, 3D animation and 3D CAD applications. At the core of Millennium II is Matrox's award-winning MGA graphics chip. This advanced 64-bit chip supports all major operating systems and is compatible with today's and tomorrow's graphics technology. With over 300 international awards of excellence, MGA has become the industry standard and is integrated in high performance Intel Pentium® processors from Compaq, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Dell.