Matrox Cards

[AshMcD]

How much better (if at all) are Matrox cards at dealing with photoshop CS4/video editing etc.

Are they worth it?

[Funkstar]

Matrox cards seem to be good if you need high quality outputs, high colour depths or solid multi monitor outputs.

For CS4 I'm not sure there are too many advantages over a Quadro or FireGL. Both of them are able to accelerate certain features of Photoshop and the rest of the CS4 suite. I don't think the Matrox cards can.

I coud be wrong (and someone correct me if i am), but i think Matrox are more likely to supprot things like NT4, Win2K, massive multi monitor setups etc. They also have a range of medical imaging systems that are very specialist and high end.

They are no longer the creatives card.

[Badbonji]

CS4 is now supported by CUDA, so the best peformance will probably be from an nvidia card, a newer Quadro or a 8 series or newer gpu.