A few months back, Matrox, a company that has been relatively stagnant when it comes to 3D performance, announced its newest member to its graphics acclerator community, the G200. The G200 is the first of the next-gen cards. Offering a slew of new features, superb image quality, excellent speed, and TV-out capabilities, which have gained significant popularity in the past year.

In the here and now, the G200 is currently the fastest 2D/3D solution available. If someone is in the market for the best 2D, and 3D that smokes the tires off of almost anything, the newest Matrox addition is the only real choice.

G200 Features
230MHz - 250MHz Integrated RAMDAC
8MB SDRAM Upgradeable to 16MB Full AGP 2X Support 128-DualBus Architecture
Dual Command Pipelining
32-bpp True Color Rendering & Z-Buffering Per Pixel Trilinear Filtering

Advanced 3D Feature Set
Alpha-Blending
Bi-linear Filtering
Tri-linear Filtering
MIP-Mapping
Fogging
Anti-Aliasing
Specular Highlighting

3D Graphics Performance
1.5M triangles/second 100M pixels/second