14 DAY TRIAL // Matrox may not make the news much anymore, even though a long time ago it had the best video boards, but it's not dead yet. In fact, it has some really useful professional video products, especially multi-display solutions.
The cards are called Matrox C-Series, collectively. The Matrox C420 has four outputs and a low-profile design, with totally passive cooling. It's good for embedded systems and small form factor PCs. You can connect both displays and projectors to it, with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 per screen.
The Matrox C680, in the meantime, is larger, with support for up to six displays, up to 4K ones (UHD, 4096 x 2160 pixels). It is made for workstations.
You can install one or two C680 cards in a single system, leading to 12-display video wall support.
You even get the board-to-board framelock feature, which syncs all displays and reduces tearing on digital signage panels and those video walls we mentioned.
Both Matrox C-Series PCI Express x16 graphics cards use AMD GPUs and support DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.4, and OpenCL 1.2. Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1, and Linux operating systems are compatible. Sadly, the company did not specify prices.
Sales will start at some point in the fourth quarter though (October-December), so there's not much left to wait now.
