Matrox's G200 is a chipset which has been in the running for a while now. The card has rocksolid 2D performance and reasonable 3D performance. The card most strong point, or for that matter Matrox's, is the high-quality screenoutput it produces. Its biggest weakness is the low performance in titles that use multi-texturing.

2D Features
High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/Direct Draw Acceleration
Optimized for multiple color depths including 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32bpp

3D features
100% hardware triangle setup
Bump mapping
Texture modulation
Light Maps
Reflections Maps
Environmental Maps
Point sampled, bilinear, tri-linear filtering
Per pixel perspective correct texture alpha
32-bit, 24-bit or 16-bit Z-buffer

Misc. Features
S-Video out, supports NTCS and PAL (standard) up to 1024 x 768 (Mystique version) Integrated 230 - 250Mhz RAMDAC supporting up to 1600 x 1200
AGP 2x support

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