Matrox has been quite big when it comes to multi-display market, especially in enterprise, industrial, pro A/V, digital signage and similar markets and it appears that company is coming back, but this time powered by AMD's GPU.


According to Matrox, its next-gen graphics cards will be powered by 28nm AMD GPU with 1.5 billion transistors, DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.2 support as well as Shader Model 5.0, PCI-Express 3.0 and 128-bit memory interface. According to these features and specifications, it is most likely that Matrox will go for some lower performance AMD Graphics CoreNext GPU, most likely Cape Verde GPU.

The big part of the cooperation is that Matrox customers will be still able to use and benefit from Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software which will be integrated to work on these new cards.

“AMD is excited to work with Matrox to deliver compelling industry leading GPUs for their professional users,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD.

The AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU we selected for our new product line allows Matrox to continue designing and manufacturing professional, reliable video cards. Matrox add-in boards strike the perfect balance between video output density, performance and power consumption,” said David Chiappini, vice president of research and development, Matrox Graphics.



Source: Matrox.com.