John Carmack, l’heureux papa de DOOM a récemment donné ses impressions à propos de la toute nouvelle carte Parhelia 512 de Matrox. Comme prévu, Carmack parle surtout de ce que pourra donner le Parhelia avec DOOM III.
'The performance was really disappointing for the first 256 bit DDR card. I tried to set up a 'poster child' case that would stress the memory subsystem above and beyond any driver or triangle level inefficiencies, but I was unable to get it to ever approach the performance of a GF4.
The basic hardware support is good, with fragment flexibility better than GF4 (but not as good as ATI 8500), but it just doesn’t keep up in raw performance. With a die shrink, this chip could probably be a contender, but there are probably going to be other chips out by then that will completely eclipse this generation of products.'
En gros, John Carmack est comme nous. Son compte rendu est plutôt mitigé, et il explique que les cartes Parhelia 512 pourront faire tourner DOOM III, mais moins bien que les cartes ATI et nVIDIA. Il espère cependant une amélioration au niveau des drivers ...
