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Graphics cards

    03-Jul-93 11:01:49
Sb: #48431-Graphics cards
Fm: Ana Francisca Gervas 70624,673
To: Martin Kunert 71726,2050
Martin, According to some Matrox info, the MGA (Multimedia Graphics Architecture) has a price range from $599 to $1699. They said that the higher models can do realtime 24bit gouraud shading in AutoCAD, with a TI copro and some ASIC custom chips, which I think are versions of their highest end board (which has or had, if it's currently shipping, a higher price). They also said that they have double-buffering and hardware-assisted antialiasing at a max 1600×1200 resolution (not 24 bits but with an special near truecolor quality (?) dithering). This is only press-info, not real experience. If anybody has more precise info, please share. These boards seems as the fastest in the market at a real good price. Ana