DiGiSTORM schrijft dat Ace's Hardware een artikel heeft gepost met daarin wat videokaarten info geplukt van de CeBIT beurs. Er wordt o.a. gezegd dat Matrox fans in juli / augustus de G800 kunnen verwachten:
At the Matrox booth, I met with Marije Stijnen. Although she told me quite a few things,but I can't tell you much about Matrox next generation because I had to sign a NDA before leaving the booth. All I can say is that the G450 will be an excellent videocard, but not the favorite of hardcore gamers.
Interesting was Matrox's view on T&L: "DirectX 7 only support T&L acceleration for static objects, not in moving objects". Therefore Matrox feels that there is no real need to launch a T&L accelerated videocard before DirectX 8.0 comes out (July- August 2000). Acceptable, but Dagoth More Zoological proves that by T&L acceleration is interesting even if DirectX 7.0 does not fully support it. After all, if the videocard takes care of the geometry for static objects, the moving objects can use more polygons because the CPU has been relieved of at least some of the geometry calculations.
Matrox will not leave the High end gamers market: the "G800" (Name not confirmed by Matrox) is scheduled for a release at the same time when DirectX8 is lanched.
Daarnaast zal ATi rond mei een nieuwe kaart uitbrengen met een sterke T&L engine die een grote conurrent moet gaan vormen voor nVidia's NV15.
