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XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra Graphics Cards Ships

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edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
Announced in mid-September, the XGI Volari graphics processors are the third family of actual chips to support DirectX 9.0 capabilities available in the market. XGI currently offers two graphics processors with identical feature-set, but different performance – the Volari V5 and the Volari V8. The fundamental difference between the former and the latter is the number of rendering pipelines – 4 and 8 for the V5 and V8 respectively. The XGI Volari V5 and V8 have equal number of Vertex Shader pipelines – 2 per chip. However, the Volari V8 also packs 4 Pixel Shader pipelines, while the V5 only boasts with 2 of them.

Both V5 and V8 GPUs are made using 0.13 micron fabrication process at UMC.

Source: [link=http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20031202182452.html]XBitLabs[/link]

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  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    interesting to see what pricing they come with ...will probably make or break this card/company at this point.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Truthfully I really hope they do well 2 companys fighting is ok but 3 is great for pricing and options!
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited December 2003
    Time to get on the horn in hopes of getting one for review :D
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited December 2003
    SimGuy had this to say
    Time to get on the horn in hopes of getting one for review :D

    Get 2!! I'll do a "review" *wink wink*

    can't wait for the benchmarks!! wonder if the drivers will be well developed, or buggy as hell.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    heck even if he gets one of each Ill be happy to test one and write a kick @$$ article for the site. Speaking of that I need to get back into the habbit of writing articles like i used to. WEll i do have a new 9600 xt! time to bust out hte camera and start it up again!
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I don't need, but I WANT!! Must..... have...... gadgets.....
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2003
    Hope they do well, since it'll give ATi a reason to release stuff faster...
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