*OFFICIAL* XGI/Volari GPU thread! upto 5600 in 3Dmark03

[UlricT]

Saw some ads... seems like a graphics card... anyone heard of this?

here is their site...

Press Release:

Taipei, September 15, 2003 --- XGI Technology Inc, a high-end graphics chipsets supplier, has for the first time announced their product brand name and at the same time introduced a full family, top to bottom graphics solution for discrete graphics and mobile graphics market. XGI has designed and developed multiple chipset products to fulfill enthusiast, high-end, mainstream and entry level market. For the enthusiast market, XGI has introduced WorldÃ?Â?s 1st dual DX9 graphics solution, the Volari Duo V8 Ultra and the Volari Duo V5 Ultra. For the other market segments, XGI has introduced Volari V8 Ultra and Volari V8 for high-end market; Volari V5 Ultra and Volari V5 for mainstream market; and Volari V3 for entry level graphics application. The discrete graphics solutions are specially design for desktop applications and are compliant with the latest DirectX9, OpenGL1.4 specification. In the high-end and enthusiast segment, the Volari products not only support the most commonly used DDR DRAM, it also supports the latest and the fastest DDR2 DRAM. This allows for greater flexibility in product planning and reduced the risk of limited DRAM selection.

In addition, XGI has set the industry trend with the revolutionized BitFluentTM Achitecture built into Volari V5 series and the Volari V8 series processors. It allows the dual processor configuration and is able to equally distribute frame loadings between two processors. By employing the dual processor approach, the development cost could be reduced; the average yield rate could be increased and the performance could be increased at lower costs.

In the mobile graphics arena, Volari has introduced three discrete graphics processor that are all software compliant with DirectX9 specification. XGI offers Volari XP5m32 for thin and light market; Volari XP5m64 for performance market and Volari XP5 for other market segments.

By introducing a full range of products both in the discrete desktop and mobile market, XGI is a full product line supplier and already has Fullerton Technology, Siltrontech and World Peace Group joining XGI as strategic distributors. In the initial stage, XGI will cooperate with worldwide system integrators to deliver its high-end products and will not be initiating a price war to gain market shares. XGI will focus in supplying high quality products to fulfill the needs of its clients.

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Hey guys.

Got this today:


Dear Anand and Kristopher,



This is CP, the editor contact at XGI.

As to your interest in knowing, the Volari Duo V8 Ultra has achieved 5600+ with 3DMark2003 on a 3.0GHz plateform(live demo at product launch). This only give you a brief idea on where the performance is.

Simplier way of remembering our product segments:

3DMark2003
Volari Duo V8 Ultra - 5600+
Volari Duo V5 Ultra - 4000+
Volari V8 Series - 3000+
Volari V5 Series - 2000+
Volari V3 Series - 1000+

This completes the product segmentation of the discrete desktop graphics productline

If you would need any other information, please do let me know.

Best Regards,

CP Lin


Cheers,

Kristopher

 

[KristopherKubicki]

the press announcement is in a couple hours. i dont know, they are hyping it a lot but i dont know any performance specs on it at all.

btw, XGI is technically the merger of trident and sis's xabre division. i think their new graphics base is pci-express only.

Kristopher

 

[CrackRabbit]

thier website is fully functional now...
interesting, but im not expecting too much, correct me if im wrong, but is the XP5 a tile based renderer with DX8 capabilites?
hopefuly it will be a good low cost solution if the drivers dont suck.

 

[MangoTBG]

Overview

Combining phenomenal graphics performance with blazingly fast processor speed, the Volari V8 series of graphics processors more than satisfies the computing power needs of advanced gamers.
With true hardware DX9 built into each chip and support for both DDR and DDR2 memory specifications, no other graphics processor for the mainstream desktop PC can match the combined power and flexibility of XGI Volari V8 processors. Volari V8 processors have been designed from the substrate up to provide industry customers with flexible product segmentation. Choose a Volari V8 Ultra processor with 256MB DDR2 for extreme gaming graphics solutions, or a Volari V8 processor with 128MB DDR for high-end multimedia graphics solutions.

True Hardware DirectX9
All Volari V8 processors employ XGI?s next generation TruShader? 2.1 Engine, taking vertex and pixel shading to a new level of realism. Combine this with built-in DirectX9 programmability and 8 pixel pipelines, and 3D environments now come alive with cinematic realism and moviestudio caliber graphics. Advanced developers can take advantage of the Volari V8 processor?s fully programmable DirectX9 functions to deliver visual experiences never before seen on the PC.

Not sure what you meant, rabbit, but it appears that it is DX9 compatible.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

If I remember correctly Anand made a review on a Trident card that was like a Geforce 4 card that performed well and carried a very lower price.

 

[kazeakuma]

Volari Duo

Dual processors on the one card? Apparently the high end cards will have 2 gpus on the board. Could be interesting for performance.

EDIT: Linkied

 

[CrackRabbit]

no the XP5 is thier laptop gpu,
and i think they answered my question
- Based on hierachical pixel tiling for rasterization
maybe this will answer some of the qestions of what a Kyro III might of done...


Edit: It looks as if the lower end desktop GPU is tile based also

 

[MangoTBG]

Volari Duo

Introduction

For the first time in gaming history, you can harness the brute force of true, dual GPUs on a single, DX9 Compliant board. Volari Duo takes on the task of graphics processing with twice the firepower of other graphics cards, blowing away 3D benchmark challenges like a pair of 9 millimeters. Enjoy the crisp clarity of independent frame rendering with a stunning increase in overall yield that will redefine what people expect from a GPU.
With an amazing 16 pipelines linked through a proprietary new bridge protocol, Volari? Duo unleashes an avalanche of processing power that will leave the competition out in the cold.

Let's hope their "competition" isn't nVidia, alone. "leaving the competition out in the cold" wouldn't take much!

However, this really does have me intrigued. I won't get my hopes up, obviously, but it looks good on paper. hehe

 

[Adul]

With an amazing 16 pipelines linked through a proprietary new bridge protocol, Volari? Duo unleashes an avalanche of processing power that will leave the competition out in the cold.

16!

 

[PraetorianGuards]

Wow, impressive specs. However, it seems like it's all pretty marketing names and press announcements. Hopefully this won't be like the Trident cards.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

well, XGI is SiS's Xabre team + Trident (they merged into a new company). My Taiwan contact is going to the press release confrence in an hour. Details to follow i guess

Kristopher

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
well, XGI is SiS's Xabre team + Trident (they merged into a new company). My Taiwan contact is going to the press release confrence in an hour. Details to follow i guess

Kristopher

You have a taiwan contact? Ooooh, sophisticated...

 

[mrgoblin]

Does your contact have a codename?

 

[Darien]

Hurray for competition

Specs are impressive...might be a good card to upgrade my ti4200.

 

[ShawnD1]

Would the 2 processor thing require software support like having 2 CPUs or will it work on everything?

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
If I remember correctly Anand made a review on a Trident card that was like a Geforce 4 card that performed well and carried a very lower price.

that would have been the trident xp4. which never showed up for the consumer

although, if trident merged with another company, it might explain why the xp4 never showed up, and also makes this new card very interesting.

 

[Luagsch]

For the first time in gaming history, you can harness the brute force of true, dual GPUs on a single, DX9 Compliant board.

if it wasn't for the dx9 part i would kick ther a$$es...
(anyone quantum 3d? voodoo5 5500?)

EDIT forgot the rage MAXX... doesn't matter...

 

[Corporate Thug]

we need another competitor in the video card oligopoly

 

[Geomagick]

I just hope that it comes to something, there have been so many false starts before. They need the product on the shelves now or else ATI and nvidia will release their next generation products and we will be back to square one in terms of competition.

 

[Mingon]

So its a 4 x 2 pipeline config, I hope that they are not of the resources sharing type like the trident was.

 

[oldfart]

:music: [Ricardo Montalban] VOLARI......WHOOOOAA!.........VOLARI.........WHOOOOOAA!...[/Ricardo Montalban] :music:

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: oldfart
:music: [Ricardo Montalban] VOLARI......WHOOOOAA!.........VOLARI.........WHOOOOOAA!...[/Ricardo Montalban] :music:

lol

<Sean Paul> just gimme the bencheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees </Sean Paul>

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Looking at their site, it looks like it's going to be an AGP card. No PCI-Express.

- M4H

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Luagsch

For the first time in gaming history, you can harness the brute force of true, dual GPUs on a single, DX9 Compliant board.

if it wasn't for the dx9 part i would kick ther a$$es...
(anyone quantum 3d? voodoo5 5500?)

EDIT forgot the rage MAXX... doesn't matter...

Those weren't technically GPU's either I don't think. The Geforce 256 was the first GPU, to my knowledge, as it did T&L in hardware.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Unfortunately, this is all we got from the press confrence.



Taipei, September 15, 2003 --- XGI Technology Inc, a high-end graphics chipsets supplier, has for the first time announced their product brand name and at the same time introduced a full family, top to bottom graphics solution for discrete graphics and mobile graphics market. XGI has designed and developed multiple chipset products to fulfill enthusiast, high-end, mainstream and entry level market. For the enthusiast market, XGI has introduced World?s 1st dual DX9 graphics solution, the Volari Duo V8 Ultra and the Volari Duo V5 Ultra. For the other market segments, XGI has introduced Volari V8 Ultra and Volari V8 for high-end market; Volari V5 Ultra and Volari V5 for mainstream market; and Volari V3 for entry level graphics application. The discrete graphics solutions are specially design for desktop applications and are compliant with the latest DirectX9, OpenGL1.4 specification. In the high-end and enthusiast segment, the Volari products not only support the most commonly used DDR DRAM, it also supports the latest and the fastest DDR2 DRAM. This allows for greater flexibility in product planning and reduced the risk of limited DRAM selection.

In addition, XGI has set the industry trend with the revolutionized BitFluentTM Achitecture built into Volari V5 series and the Volari V8 series processors. It allows the dual processor configuration and is able to equally distribute frame loadings between two processors. By employing the dual processor approach, the development cost could be reduced; the average yield rate could be increased and the performance could be increased at lower costs.

In the mobile graphics arena, Volari has introduced three discrete graphics processor that are all software compliant with DirectX9 specification. XGI offers Volari XP5m32 for thin and light market; Volari XP5m64 for performance market and Volari XP5 for other market segments.

By introducing a full range of products both in the discrete desktop and mobile market, XGI is a full product line supplier and already has Fullerton Technology, Siltrontech and World Peace Group joining XGI as strategic distributors. In the initial stage, XGI will cooperate with worldwide system integrators to deliver its high-end products and will not be initiating a price war to gain market shares. XGI will focus in supplying high quality products to fulfill the needs of its clients.



We will see. I am a little skeptical that they do not post any benchmarks or anything.

Kristopher