Choosing the best card regarding absolute best display.

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Modern matrox cards ,and they do sell modern ones are actually Amd chips afaik due to their lossless colour handling and high output as in video outputs.
An rx 550-560 would serve you well.

 

[Reeves81x]

He doesn't appear to be a troll, rather painfully out of date.

Well then, Whats VHS series nvidia card? Also, show me one matrox card that doesn't look generic af. I don't think anybody can be this out of it. 150$ would buy him an entire i5 1st or 2nd gen desktop. IGP would work fine... But he's a troll so, ya.

 

[R-T-B]

Also, show me one matrox card that doesn't look generic af.

Sure. Look back 15 years.

VHS is probably old confusion for GTX.

I mean he's basically saying everything in line with 15 year ago market scenes...

 

[eidairaman1]

I always wanted the best looking card and usually bought Matrox. I found the VHS series from nVidia to be outstanding, but I want to move up in speed and usable power, so what card priced under 150 could I expect to have adequate speed but surpassing picture quality? I do not game.

http://www.sapphirepgs.com/Default.asp?lang=eng

For non gaming cards that are equal to matrox or better try there, just browse each category

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Clearly the OP belong to the "old"school(RESPECT)and I believe that he was thinking only about 2D performance where back in the days Matrox was simply 1 step above anything else,today is a bit different and almost all GPU have good 2D however some cards are better then others and I think that Nvidia quadro or AMD firepro cards usually have better 2D then regular Consumer Gaming cards,also some gaming cards have better 2D then other cards and you can check your 2D performance in the Passmark Performance Test...here is the example bellow

As you can see my "powerful"3D gaming GTX 970 has lower 2D result then "weak"AMD R7 260X or Intel HD 4400 and as it seems this cheaper GPU are better if you just want to watch videos&browse web
I am also very curios and I will appreciate If the OP can do a little 2D passmark test of his OLD Matrox card and show us in here the result....

 

[John Naylor]

Clearly the OP belong to the "old"school(RESPECT)and I believe that he was thinking only about 2D performance where back in the days Matrox was simply 1 step above anything else,today is a bit different and almost all GPU have good 2D however some cards are better then others and I think that Nvidia quadro or AMD firepro cards usually have better 2D then regular Consumer Gaming cards,

We have been building CAD boxes for 25 years and the "go to" cards for 2D and 3D work is GTX series cards as they significantly outperform Quadro / Fire Pro in this rea, . Now if you want to render what you create in AutoCAD or other 2D / 3D programs, you'd want the Quadro / Fire pro.

Modern matrox cards ,and they do sell modern ones are actually Amd chips afaik due to their lossless colour handling and high output as in video outputs.
An rx 550-560 would serve you well.

Matrox is selling modern cards, but no, they are not AMD / ATI based, at least I have no recollection of ATI or AMD buying any Matrox technology. On ATI wiki page, Matrox is listed as one of ATis competitors and i can find no published information to corroborate any relation between them. I have installed them but only for very specific niche uses in industrial commercial settings.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/

 

[Reeves81x]

look, if this guys for real, which i doubt, then all he has is a PCI slot, perhaps an AGP. who knows op wont fill in his info "cough" if the rest of his tech is as old as his card.. then THROW THE WHOLE THING AWAY, lol. go buy something from this century. Hell i could find better components in the dump. No offense intended, but this whole thread is an exercise in futility. -_-

 

[eidairaman1]

look, if this guys for real, which i doubt, then all he has is a PCI slot, perhaps an AGP. who knows op wont fill in his info "cough" if the rest of his tech is as old as his card.. then THROW THE WHOLE THING AWAY, lol. go buy something from this century. Hell i could find better components in the dump. No offense intended, but this whole thread is an exercise in futility. -_-

If he has AGP the best Card he could get is a HD4670 lol.

But beyond that I provided a link for a slew of Display cards.

We have been building CAD boxes for 25 years and the "go to" cards for 2D and 3D work is GTX series cards as they significantly outperform Quadro / Fire Pro in this rea, . Now if you want to render what you create in AutoCAD or other 2D / 3D programs, you'd want the Quadro / Fire pro.




Matrox is selling modern cards, but no, they are not AMD / ATI based, at least I have no recollection of ATI or AMD buying any Matrox technology. On ATI wiki page, Matrox is listed as one of ATis competitors and i can find no published information to corroborate any relation between them. I have installed them but only for very specific niche uses in industrial commercial settings.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/

From 2014, its older, so who knows what matrox is using now...

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/press/releases/2014/graphics_cards/amd/

Well matrox has a new card from last year.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/c-series/c900

I believe anything that is AMD based for matrox is under the C Series cards

 

[kn00tcn]

That isn't how it works. The content all starts out the same, and the by default the video card will output the exact same image, but the problem is that every monitor is different. So what you see on your screen is not the same as what I will see on my screen, even if we are both looking at the exact same image. Even two monitors that are the exact same model number can vary enough to look different.

I understand that, but what I'm saying is when you are doing that, you are using your judgement and taste to determine what looks "right" to you. What looks right to you may not look right to me. Doing calibration this way is in no way actual calibration or anything close to it.

but it is how it works, let's say your monitor appears faded, so you increase the contrast, now you have crushed blacks & whites in the process, every middle value looks better, but you have lost information at the extremes, this has nothing to do with judgement, the goal is to see every available value if possible, it's an extremely basic casual way to see if something is wrong (& i have seen it, some monitors cannot show all blacks no matter what settings, some show those junk 'game' or 'movie' modes alter the image a ton, etc)

i never said i was calibrating two screens to match each other or match an official reference, it's only to attempt to display what is being sent to the monitor (or driver) without missing anything

the 'only' situation that software tweaking can solve is for example if the monitor is doing something incorrect to the signal that results in it mismatching the scale of those values: my FP241VW did this when using hdmi, i cannot use the same as dvi settings or rgb-full on it, it permanently crushes blacks at all times as if it assumes all hdmi input is supposed to be limited... so i had to only output software/consoles as rgb-limited, then readjust the brightness/contrast of the monitor so that black shows up as to black instead of grey & white returns to white instead of grey because i know the monitor can display those values & the rgb-limited ones did not reach them

If he has AGP the best Card he could get is a HD4670 lol.

i feel like there was a single fermi, kepler, or maxwell agp from someone

 

[dorsetknob]

i feel like there was a single fermi, kepler, or maxwell agp from someone

fastest was
XFX GeForce 7950 GT (AGP 8x, 512MB, 1.2GHz)

and Old thread from the vaults of TPU Forums
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fastest-nvidia-agp-card.120216/

 

[eidairaman1]

fastest was
XFX GeForce 7950 GT (AGP 8x, 512MB, 1.2GHz)

and Old thread from the vaults of TPU Forums
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/fastest-nvidia-agp-card.120216/

Yup Nvidia's fastest AGP was the 7950GT. AMD kept the AGP users around longer with the x1950 Pro, HD3850, HD4670, after that phased out the AGP Cards.