Finally a new Matrox Graphics Card... 

There will be an article coming out for the card on the website, let me know if you’re interested in having this as a regular occurrence.

While everyone was fighting to have the best 3D card. Matrox fought for the mantel of the best 2D card.

I think I'm seeing a theme here. They are after a market for business users who need multiple displays that are run 24/7 without complaint, hence the low costs, low power consumption, and extreme reliability. Stockbrokers and traders perhaps who have six screens all full of information? E: Wikipedia tells me that they're selling cards under the Luma name which is based on Intel Arc. Now that's something I'd like to see you getting going.

Matrox is still around and it's usually in the weirdest places, have you ever gone to a bank or a gas station and there are a wall of 3~6 regular consumer TV's combined into a display that play some corporate garbage promotions? Matrox.

The Luma series looks interesting, the Intel ARC cards have always suffered with lacklustre drivers so Matrox seems like the perfect partner

Matrox strikes back! Good to see you uploading again, Budgetbuilds!

No way?!??!?! Two videos?!??!!?

Matrox user here......Love the video....I am still using M9120 Matrox GPU in my main rig as my second card my main GPU is RX 6900...I have 4 monitors + VR connected on my rig so my Matrox card is there to handle my 2 side panels as usually love to watch youtube videos while I am playing games and I do not want to lost performance on my main GPU so here comes the Matrox to help also there is 0 issues with Matrox drivers on win 10&11 and never have the problem when mixing Matrox cards with AMD or Nvidia.....'tho M9120 is predominantly 2D card I will love to see how C680 works in combo with other 3d card....all the best and keep up the good work!!!

Now that was a VERY interesting video ! My very first graphics card was a Matrox Mystique, which came with 2 MB Ram and a slot onboard to upgrade it with another 2 MB to a whopping 4 MB. That's between 25 to 30 years ago meanwhile, lovely memories. The Mystique was part of my evolving Quake 2 - rigs, at te end boosted with a 2x Voodoo II -SLi setup. Those were golden online gaming times, had tons of fun - until i got an enormous phone bill of over 900 bucks for extensively using internet-by-call with that 28.8 creatix modem. Lol.

6:20 These cards were used in factory / power plant control rooms, for powering the main display.

I ran a lot of these where i was working as an IT on trading floors, those traders back in the days wanted arrays of screens for their bloomberg setups. Then ultrawide monitors came and reduced the need for 8 monitors array setups

When I was a teen back in Zimbabwe we couldn't get our hands on much PC hardware, but we did get PC magazines. The advert for the Matrox Millennium is seared into my mind as the GPU to have. Glad to see they're still going!

Wow! For the price this thing looks like a productivity beast! Up to 6 4K monitors all in a small power and heat efficient package using the modern interconnect standard! A card you can stick in your system and it will just work for years to come, digital signage, workstation, even gaming. One can even get unofficial tech support to this day! I am extremely impressed!

I used to buy a lot of these cards for my job. They're popular for CCTV/DVR systems. You can run 4x4 displays in 4K. So you can basically feed 16 cameras to the monitors at once without having to downscale the feeds coming from the cameras. They're much cheaper and more stable than Radeon Pro.

We used Matrox cards in our power plant control rooms due to multi-monitor support. 1 computer, 4 monitors and Matrox was perfect for that. Later we moved into a mainframe setup and mini-PCs controlling 2 monitors each.

I wonder if this Matrox stability still applies to their newest cards that are intel arc alchemist based. Comparing their A380 version to a normal A380 would be a really cool video some day

Two videos this fast? Holy shit lol

I had IIRC Matrox millennium g550. I remember it fondly.

I was a big fan of Matrox cards because they were the first (to my knowledge) to provide Windows NT drivers for multiple cards in one computer. It allowed to build the first dual-screen machines where the Windows deskop spanned both screens. Previously there was only one graphics screen (and a CGA text mode screen for example for CAD when the text mode was used for submitting textual commands).

I was a big booster for Matrox back when I built and sold PCs to business customers. Their cards were bulletproof. I was so sad when they tanked during the Parhelia development. I still have some G400s around in my "hall of memorial parts" cabinet. :)

I still remember matrox to being relevant, back in the days i had a matrox millenia 2, looking to upgrade to a matrox g400, evironmental bump mapping was so cool.... but the company managed to drive itself into irrelevancy pretty quick.

Like you Matrox is well before my time as a pc gamer, but like you I love it for how wonderfully weird it was. Parhelia was truly a special card and imho their magnum opus. But the market is a cruel mistress to innovators at time.

Used to be a Matrox DigiSuite Tech, they had to ensure backwards compatibility for the large number of configurations for various product lines and end users. G400 and g450 were the main workhorses for most DigiSuite Systems and in my opinion the need to maintain compatibility resulted in refreshed g400+ and lead to a public perception of a lack of innovation for their consumer gaming side.

It makes me happy that Matrox are still going. I had a Millennium back in the day, which I re-used as second graphics card in my Company Compaq desktop to drive a second screen back when Windows 200 was released. I had a 17 inch CRT and 14 inch TFT screens. I realized they were still going more recently when the the drivers were listed on some servers i was supporting form HP and Dell. These cards are obviously filling the Quadro display niche that Nvidia can no longer be bothered with. Matrox were always the quality option, would be good to see them enter the Consumer market properly as the quality option for AMD, but supplying their own drivers.

What a blast from the past. Used to love them back in the day. Loved my G550! I was even a Moderator in the short lived (and low traffic) Tech Report Matrox Forum for a bit!

Actually Super Sampling AA was the standard form of AA on the Radeon 8500 before the Parhelia came out.

Some other really cool stuff I’ve seen about Matrox is the G200 was incredibly popular with server hardware until IIRC the 2010s. It’s only PCI, but for a server where it’s mostly CLI stuff connected to a 4:3 monitor, it’s fine. The consumer versions of the G200 are also really interesting. There exist Dual and QUAD processor variants on a single card and where the DMS-59 connector comes from, I believe with each processor handling a separate monitor. This was in the mid-90s as well, when windows didn’t even have built in multi-monitor support yet.

I've got one of these! It's actually most similar to the AMD FirePro W600, and will actually run the AMD FirePro driver package and identifies itself to the system as a W600 instead of a C680 if you do so.

Good to have you back uploading

This kind of stability should be a major goal for all cheap low profile card manufacturers. I'd love the performance and price of an Arc A380 with this kind of stability.

I also have a matrox card the older matrox from 1999. Unfortunately, it won't give any picture but it is cool to have an old card. The card I have is MGA-G200A-C having 1 pixel shader and 1 vertex shader.

Ever since your post dropped I've been waiting for this!

1:55 oh shit, it's Abe's Oddyssey! Ah, memories.

Great video,still using Matrox videos in my retro pcs.

Man, this takes me back. I used to be such a Matrox fan. My first card was a Mystique 2mb, then I got the PowerVR powered m3D which, while not nearly as fast as a Voodoo 2 actually did quite well and could do 1024 x 768 and 24bit colour and ran decent enough when supported. Last Matrox car I ever got was a G400 for the bump mapping but that was a very buggy and un-matrox like experience and I couldn't help but be disappointed as i traded in a TNT2 for it... I'd still love to see a somewhat competitive matrox consumer card one of these days, even though I know it's not where their business is at right now. :)

I have a feeling that these cards would be absolutely sublime for high-accuracy retro emulation.

$40? I see it for $400 and $600 on Amazon. And $300 used.

We are using old Matrox Cards in our Productionline for showing simular data on a couple of big monitors. Stable and reliable

Blast from the past! ;-)

This video was strangely heartwarming.

Very cool to see this; I bought a Parhelia back in the day to play with (it was not quite brand new, but it was relevant). The triple display capability was awesome well before AMD “Eyefinity”.

I remember the first Matrox card I ever saw in my mates Compaq P60 from the 90's. Matrox Millenium if I remember correctly. I do remember the bios being a complete sod to work with as it was on the hard drive.

Back in the day I used to run a Matrox G200 with the extra ram module linked to a Voodoo 2 card on an early Pentium and it was really good for the time.

"It just works" ... that's been the Matrox mantra since forever. That's what they've always been known for.

Where can I find this card for $40?

I'd love to see a Matrox card with the final iteration of Vega. That would probably be a pretty good semi-recent budget option.

Love the video guy, what i wonder is will this card run VR/Windows Mixed Reality? Like... I know its niche to want to run things with that kind of things but I do wonder that with most desktop/laptop GPU's as I do tinkering with different rigs that all have been able to run it in one form or another

I loved my G400 when I had it :D - was a beast at the time, 1st to support hardware bump-mapping, - and it was 'true' dual head (not shared) :D

It would be interesting if you tested some more cpu dependent games so that we can see how these graphics cards handle higher fps scenarios. Some games like CS Source or older minecraft versions with optifine would be cool to see.

It's good to see a new card doing this at this price point. Also good to see Matrox back in business. $1000 video cards are a travesty to the computer world and they never should have existed in the first place. We need more $40 cards doing well at everything we need to do: Just working!

What do you suppose the screw posts above the mini-DP ports are for? I mean, securing the plugs in the ports would be an obvious answer but I'm not aware of any mini-DP cables that actually have any kind of screw-in fitting on them.

Even support for their older cards you say? I will test that out the next time i have a Mystique acting up! 😁

back in 97 i had a PCI m3d matrox card. 90% of the games looked glitchy as hell but they worked. I thought they died in the early 2000s

That Cape Verde Pro core with 8 CUs is very similar to the Xbox One's GPU.

I would welcome back Matrox, more than I welcomed Intel struggling to shake things up. Stability is a thing, and power draw is becoming a thing (less here in the States perhaps, but it's coming...). Thanks for another fun video!

Loved matrox cards. The most stable ever and best multimonitor.

Interesting to know they went AMD for the C cards, then Nvidia for the D cards (D1480 is using a GP107). Luma is based on the intel ARC gpus, so the luma A310FP and A380P are using the Intel ARC A310 and A380 platforms with 4 and 6gb memory options respectively, they should be quite capable with a lot of modern games although I wouldn't expect them to run them maxed out due to vram limitations. availability from what I'm seeing right now is rather scarce, so you'd be more likely to pick one up on the cheap at an electronics recycler willing to resell to the public than you would spending 1500 dollars to get a D series brand new, or 660 dollars for a luma a380.

There is an even newer generation of Matrox cards, based on Intel Arc. I wonder what sort of magic those reworked drivers do there.

This is the only few channels that features this card

I'd love to see a Matrox card based off the RX400/500 series, that would be a hell of a smooth operator!

matrox...always great for multiple display outputs.configured as on screen...mulit screens ..groups of screens. was and is used wide in the proces industrie,medical world, finace,banking and comercail sectors and some video walls.Everywhere were 24/7 stable use is a big issue I wonder how the card would handle a multi 4K display setup as a outputcard with a modern GPU as as rendering unit.

I misheard the end bit of the video and thought it was a "ligma" joke lmao

Gotta say, I love your videos, so chill and high quality, a good break from the current hyperactive try hard attention grabber clickbait.

Matrox should really come back to the lower market where they should do well. Giving double the cores of the c680 and at least 6gb of vram should be the ultimate lower end champ

Re Fallout4: Monsignor Plaza is a bad test for exterior-interior cell behaviour, because the inside is NOT an actual interior cell (you can notice when you are at the top level and can see outside through some holes in the wall).

How's the idle power consumption? Much of the time, machines idle, so this is very important. Also very curious about latency, which is usually the first sacrifice made in the name of consistent frametimes.

I don't remember Unsubscribing. That's why I haven't seen you in a while

I still miss our Canadian video card companies. I know that Matrox is still managing to hanging on, but the AMD acquisition of ATi put a tear in eye back in the day.

Would be cool to see a matrox version of a rx 580 or something like that

If they would release gaming gpu would buy it in a heartbeat

I once had a matrox AGP card back in 2012 that ran on XP. It was able to run Roblox and Even Minecraft back then perfectly without issues. I still regret selling it to this day.

I would like to see, how it performs under Linux, since I ditched Windows 3 years ago. I am looking for card like this, low power workstation, that can handle some games.

I still have a some 550 and 450 dual in my heap.

I loved the g200 450 and 550 cards and still my originals i bought to this day

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These things are not really for games, but for operating large scale info-boards or video screens.

Matrox still exists? Wow. Had a G200 back in time. It was awesome stable, not like the ATI Cards then.

I have never heard of this gpu brand before

big respect for matrox

Good to know I'm not the only one who uses a usb cable as a power button

I wish that Matrox would become a viable contender on the GPU market again and give AMD and nVidia a run for the money like Intel is attempting. Seriously doubt that will ever happen though. They just don't have that kind of funding and probably never will. 😕 Real nice video, by the way!👍👍

Have you tried using AMD's FSR with it? If so how did it run?

I know you are praising the excellent frame pacing, as you are right to, but I have found that by aggressively undervolting modern AMD in the official software (around half the total wattage) the frame timing is drastically improved. So much so my preference for competitive games is to stay undervolted. Weirdly, 1440p seems to stutter less than 1080p, I cannot justify this behaviour.

I love your videos man

So Hell did that frozen thing?

I know that matrox is making Intel GPUs I wonder how they hold up. I know it's just an A380 but it's still cool, I have an A770 so I wonder if there's a difference or custom drivers. I think it's a little too expensive for the channel though (for now at least).

I miss Matrox so much.

Back in the day Nvidia was at best flimsy in their production quality, ATI was OK but i could not afford so a Matrox g400 was the deal! :D Would be nice if you could put in Linux performance. Gaming- and office-wise

I remember that Matrox released some new card based on intel arc, now i'm wondering how they perform.

Has anyone ever suggested you might have an unhealthy obsession with Matrox😂? …Just saying. Nice video. Thx

How does this card measure up against a 2Gb GT710 for example? just wondering as I will probably need a Display port - HDMI adapter.

for half life 2, you might have had a FPS max on 60 in the config. also do you not have a capture card? lol

I wonder if this thing overclocks well

Hell yes

question, is 1366x768 considered 720p, i still wanna know since i have a 1660ti and want to check if i'm just too used to this resolution thinking it's 1080p (im clueless)

Look at this shit , damn son where did you find this ,

Imagine matrox adopting vulkan 1.3.x omg

What im interested is not games but movies performance. You did say it supports 4k. How would it fair with a 60 inch tv? My 3600g struggles with 2k content and even sometimew with 1080....

Everyone was buying a 3dfx for W98 gaming, i thought i knew better and bought a Matrox MD3 powervr card for gaming.........and the outcome was predicible. Lol

Six outputs is likely to be for the financial sector.