by Brianna Crandall — February 12, 2016—Last week, Matrox Graphics announced Matrox C900, the world’s first single-slot, nine-output graphics card that supports nine 1920×1080 displays at 60Hz. The latest card in the popular Matrox C-Series line of multi-monitor graphics cards, C900 was demonstrated for the first time this week at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2016 show in Amsterdam.
A special-purpose graphics card designed to power 3×3 and 9×1 video walls, Matrox C900’s single-slot form factor and low power consumption at 75 watts offer digital signage and video wall vendors a turnkey solution for simpler integration and a lower cost of ownership, says Matrox.
Matrox C900 single-slot graphics card drives nine 1920×1080 displays for 3×3 video walls for digital signage and control rooms.
The card’s support for stretched desktop across all nine synchronized outputs lets users run any application full screen across a 3×3 video wall, which makes the card well suited for signage installations in retail, corporate, entertainment and hospitality environments as well as control room video wall solutions in security, process control and transportation.
Matrox PowerDesk desktop management software for Windows is included with C900 to give users a comprehensive set of tools, including bezel management and extended display identification data (EDID) management, to easily configure and manage their multi-display setups. Advanced application program interfaces (APIs) are available to developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly build custom interfaces and applications.
Key features of Matrox C900
Matrox C900 is a PCI Express 3.0 x16 graphics card with 4GB of memory that supports nine displays at a maximum resolution of 1920×1080 per display or a total desktop resolution of 5760×3240 in a 3×3 display configuration. More displays can be supported by inserting two C900 cards or a C900 plus a Matrox C680 six-output board into a system to power 18- or 15-screen video walls.
The board-to-board framelock feature ensures synchronization of all displays. C900 features nine mini-HDMI connectors, supports digital audio through HDMI, and is DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 compliant. It is compatible with Matrox Mura IPX Series 4K capture and IP encoder and decoder cards.
Matrox C900 will be available in Q2 2016. Register to be notified of the latest C-Series updates.
