Matrox Millennium G550

Written by - on 07 November 2009. Posted in Matrox G500

None of the "enthusiasts" especially expected this card. They waited for the G800, but something went wrong with it, and a little later it became clear to everyone - Matrox was leaving the bloody 3D arms race, headed by that time by NVIDIA and ATI. The only difference between the G550 and the G400/G450 is the introduction of support for digital monitors: the G550 now has DVI.

Specifications Matrox Millennium G550

0.18 micron technology, no active cooling required
64 bit SDR/DDR interface with memory, capacity 8 - 32 MB
AGP 1x-4x
Two integrated display controllers
Two integrated RAMDACs with different characteristics:
Main RAMDAC - 360 MHz (resolution up to 2048x1536 @ 32bpp)
Secondary RAMDAC - 230 MHz (resolution up to 1600x1200 @ 32bpp)
Two integrated TDMS transmitters for digital interfaces (resolution up to 1280 x 1024 @ 32bpp) Integrated signal
encoder for TV-out DDR memory)

Hardware overlay support for DVD and other video playback, including smooth frame transitions
2D hardware acceleration in accordance with Windows 2000 GDI and DirectDraw 8.0
T&L specifications with support for Matrix Palette Skinning Advanced
"HeadCasting™ Engine" vertex shaders (DirectX 8.0 shaders, but with the number of available constants increased from 96 to 256, allowing up to 32 matrices for skinning and vertex animation) No pixel shaders Two pixel pipelines
with
two texture units each
Bilinear, trilinear and anisotropic texture filtering
AGP texturing
EMBM embossed texture mapping
Support for Windows® XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT® 4.0 and Linux
DirectX 8.0 and OpenGL 1.2