As it stands, everyone is itching to get their hands on an actual Parhelia card to test out all this interesting technology. Evaluating how much the Gigacolor and Fragment anti-aliasing techniques add to the gaming experience will have to wait until then, as will judgments about the Parhelia’s claimed image quality superiority. Based on just the specifications of the Parhelia though, it seems likely that in raw 3D performance it should top the nVidia Geforce4 Ti. The question then is if Matrox will be content to rest as they did with their Millennium line. When the Parhelia comes out, it will be a unique card, offering not just improved performance, but features not found on competing manufacturer’s cards.