Col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bene­fits pro­fes­sio­nal users by brin­ging tog­e­ther legen­da­ry Matrox gra­phics board design exper­ti­se and out­stan­ding AMD GPU performance

MONTREAL — Sept. 03, 2014 — Matrox® Gra­phics Inc. today announ­ced that its next line of mul­ti-dis­play gra­phics cards will be based on AMD™ (NYSE: AMD) GPUs and their cor­re­spon­ding pro­fes­sio­nal gra­de dis­play dri­vers. Lever­aging over 35 years of expe­ri­ence in board design and manu­fac­tu­ring, Matrox will expand and com­ple­ment its line of PCI Express®-compliant gra­phics cards for deman­ding com­mer­cial appli­ca­ti­ons. The soon-to-be-laun­ched pro­duct line will enable uni­que fea­tures that sol­ve real-world pro­blems in enter­pri­se, indus­tri­al, pro A/V, digi­tal signage, secu­ri­ty, com­mand and con­trol, and other pro­fes­sio­nal appli­ca­ti­ons. Matrox cus­to­mers will con­ti­nue to bene­fit from the excep­tio­nal sta­bi­li­ty, usa­bi­li­ty and ver­sa­ti­li­ty enab­led by Matrox Power­Desk™ desk­top manage­ment soft­ware, which will be inte­gra­ted to work seam­less­ly with AMD’s pro­fes­sio­nal dis­play drivers.

“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. “AMD deli­vers solu­ti­ons, backed by rock solid dri­vers, that allow users to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their work­sta­tions and pro­du­ce out­stan­ding results backed by high qua­li­ty hard­ware and soft­ware appli­ca­ti­on support.”

“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. “Our enter­pri­se and indus­tri­al cus­to­mers will con­ti­nue to bene­fit from Matrox mul­ti-dis­play board designs, easy-to-use Power­Desk soft­ware, direct cus­to­mer sup­port and long pro­duct life cycles.”

Key fea­tures of the sel­ec­ted AMD GPU include 28nm tech­no­lo­gy with 1.5 bil­li­on tran­sis­tors; DirectX® 11.2, OpenGL® 4.4 and Open­CL™ 1.2 com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty; shader model 5.0; PCI Express 3.0 and 128-bit memo­ry interface.

Cri­ti­cal pro­duc­ti­vi­ty-enhan­cing fea­tures available with Matrox Power­Desk soft­ware will con­ti­nue to be sup­port­ed on the next line of Matrox gra­phics cards desi­gned with AMD GPUs. The robust, field-pro­ven Matrox Power­Desk desk­top manage­ment soft­ware for Win­dows® lets users easi­ly con­fi­gu­re and mana­ge mul­ti-dis­play set­ups. It offers pro­fes­sio­nal users a com­pre­hen­si­ve set of tools to deploy and con­trol a varie­ty of dis­play con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons inclu­ding stret­ched or inde­pen­dent desk­tops, clo­ne mode, pivot, bezel manage­ment and edge overlap.

About Matrox Graphics Inc.

Matrox Gra­phics is a glo­bal manu­fac­tu­rer of relia­ble, high-qua­li­ty ASICs, boards, appli­ances, and soft­ware. Backed by in-house design exper­ti­se and dedi­ca­ted cus­to­mer sup­port, Matrox pro­ducts deli­ver stel­lar cap­tu­re, exten­si­on, dis­tri­bu­ti­on, and dis­play. Engi­nee­ring high-qua­li­ty pro­ducts sin­ce 1976, Matrox tech­no­lo­gy is trus­ted by pro­fes­sio­nals and part­ners world­wi­de. Matrox is a pri­va­te­ly held com­pa­ny head­quar­te­red in Mont­re­al, Cana­da. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.matrox.com/graphics.

Matrox and Matrox pro­duct names are regis­tered trade­marks and/or trade­marks of Matrox Elec­tro­nic Sys­tems, Ltd. and/or Matrox Gra­phics Inc. in Cana­da and/or other count­ries. AMD is a trade­mark of Advan­ced Micro Devices Inc. All other com­pa­ny and pro­duct names are regis­tered trade­marks and/or trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owners.