Matrox C900 Graphics Card with Nine DisplayPorts

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/08/2016 10:09 AM | source: | 19 comment(s)

Yes, they still are alive! Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced Matrox C900, the world's first single-slot, nine-output graphics card that supports nine 1920x1080 displays at 60Hz.

A special-purpose graphics card designed to power 3x3 and 9x1 video walls, Matrox C900's single-slot form factor and low power consumption at 75W offer digital signage and video wall vendors simpler integration and a lower cost of ownership. Its support for stretched desktop across all nine synchronized outputs lets users run any application full screen across a 3x3 video wall which makes the card ideal for signage installations in retail, corporate, entertainment and hospitality environments as well as control room video wall solutions in security, process control and transportation.

Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software for Windows is included with C900 to give users a comprehensive set of tools, including bezel management and EDID management, to easily configure and manage their multi-display setups. Advanced APIs are available to developers and OEMs to quickly build custom interfaces and applications.

"Three-by-three configurations are the sweet spot for many digital signage installations and control room video walls," said Caroline Injoyan, business development manager, Matrox Graphics Inc. "Now with C900, for the first time, nine Full HD displays can be driven from a single-slot card and system integrators can easily offer a turnkey solution to power three-by-three video walls. They also benefit from the premium technical assistance, long product life cycles and reliability that Matrox is known for."

Matrox C900 is a PCI Express 3.0 x16 graphics card with 4GB of memory that supports nine displays at a maximum resolution of 1920x1080 per display or a total desktop resolution of 5760x3240 in a 3x3 display configuration. More displays can be supported by inserting two C900 cards or a C900 plus a Matrox C680 six-output board into a system to power 18- or 15-screen video walls. The board-to-board framelock feature ensures synchronization of all displays. C900 features nine mini-HDMI connectors, supports digital audio through HDMI and is DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 compliant. It is compatible with Matrox Mura IPX Series 4K capture and IP encoder & decoder cards.

Matrox C900 will be available in Q2 2016.

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Kaotik
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#5229641 Posted on: 02/08/2016 10:26 PM

I guess it has to be. It's full DX12 support with 4GB of memory.

I have the c680 with 6 LG 31" LED displays for work, and runs all my reports amazing! I can see them all with no performance hits!

Cape verde like all GCNs support 'full dx12', matrox doesn't mention d3d feature level

Didn't Matrox invent Bumpmapping back in the day?
It was just EMBM, not bump mapping in general, and it was actually developed by BitBoys even though Matrox was first to bring it to market

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graphics-card

Not entirely true. As I remember it before ATI and NVIDIA there came 3dfx with their 3D accelerator which was not videocard and worked combined with 2D videocard. And we used then 2D videocards from Matrox, S3, Trident, Tseng Labs. And later came videocards which combined 2D with 3D. And ATI and NVIDIA produced such cards. Matrox still was the best in terms of 2D picture quality (and supported modes for monitors).

Should have been more specific, was referring to g200/400 v3/4/5 rage/radeon tnt/2/gf era, not first 3d adapters ever

twtaylor
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