The current consumer graphics card market is mainly dominated by Nvidia, AMD and Intel, and most people should be confused about the name “Matrox”. Recently, a foreign YouTuber dug up an old graphics card. Although the specifications compared to modern graphics cards make players feel that it is an antique at all, it is old and strong, and it is still old and strong when running various game tests.
Foreign YouTuber digs out Matrox old graphics card, and it is still easy to run “GTA5”
If you are a hardcore PC player, you may have a little impression of Matrox (the Chinese name is “Matrox”), a brand that has been established for 46 years. After all, it used to be in the market with 3dfx, Nvidia, ATI and other brands we are now familiar with handed over. After the company was founded in 1976, it focused on graphics cards in personal PCs. It has been the dominant player in 2D display computing performance for a long time. It was also recognized by ZD Davis’ PC graphics and video testing software as the leader in 2D display performance. Benchmarks, using Matrox’s performance as a full score to test other manufacturers’ graphics cards can get a few points. Matrox has quite a set of professional multi-display display cards (allowing one display card to output images to multiple monitors at the same time), and has a wide range of target customers. No matter what field of professional needs, they are their target customers. However, in the 1990s, although 2D still performed well, the performance and market share of 3D graphics cards gradually lost to other competitors. Gradually, Matrox turned to the unique and niche video demand market, resulting in the overall display in recent years. There is less than 1% market share left in the card market. Because of this, it is quite normal for younger users to have not heard of it.
A few days ago, a foreign YouTuber bought a C240 graphics card launched by Matrox in 2014 for $30, which shows that the core of the card is actually a GCN1.0 architecture product from AMD, code-named “Cape Verde”. Cape Verde is a product released by AMD in 2012, and it has hatched more impressive models such as Radeon HD 7750 and Radeon R7 250X. From the specification point of view, C240 has 512 stream processing units, 2GB / 4GB GDDR5 graphics card memory, 128bit bit width, but because the GPU frequency is locked at 300MHz, the power number of the entire card is only a little 15W.
Since it’s a graphics card, let’s run! The YouTuber tested it with a Windows 10 computer with a Ryzen R7 3700X processor and 32GB DDR4 memory. It is naturally no problem to boot normally. The operating system automatically recognizes and updates its driver to Crimson 17.7, which successfully supports DX12, OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL1.2. Next, he tested it with 9 well-known games, and the results were not bad!
Old and old, playing “GTA5” at 720P and normal special effects can still reach an average of 37FPS. Of course, although the games in this detailed list are still very popular, they are also relatively old games. With the game imaging technology The progress of the game, if you have a relatively new graphics card, the game experience will be better. Check out the full test video below: