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Whatever happened to the video contender from 1-2 years ago?

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vetteguy

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I can't for the life of me remember their name, but I remember it had a bunch of reviewers at AT drooling for quite a while. Seems like they were supposed to be releasing cards last year, but I never saw any for sale, and haven't heard anything about them since. Supposedly, they were going to be able to make high performance cards for far less than ATI/nVidia due to using multiple GPUs on one card, as opposed to one really fast one. Anybody remember what I'm talking about?
 
Yeah, that would be XGI and their Volari line. From what I can remember, their cards were good in commonly benchmarked programs and pure ass in just about everything else.
 
Yeah its XGI, however 3DFX tried that approach with its VSA100 (Voodoo scalable arhcitecture) chips. i think the fastest card had like four VSA 100 chips on it along with 128mb of SGRAM (might have been SDRAM but its been so long 😛 ).

-Kevin
 
Anyone remember the hercules kyro2? That chip actually had promise, the XGI crap had bad IQ and was much slower hen ATi/NV.
 
The kyro sucked donkey balls.

It was inferior to the 5500 in almost every way.

Think the only thing the Kyro had going for it was HSR.
 
Originally posted by: Rollo
The kyro sucked donkey balls.
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It's true, donkeys haven't been the same since PowerVR went belly up. They just kind of wander around, looking tense.....
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Actually; luckily for the donkeys XGI has taken the torch from powerVR.


Let sucking commence.
 
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Yeah its XGI, however 3DFX tried that approach with its VSA100 (Voodoo scalable arhcitecture) chips. i think the fastest card had like four VSA 100 chips on it along with 128mb of SGRAM (might have been SDRAM but its been so long 😛 ).

-Kevin
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Your forgetting Quantum3D's AAlchemy series.

The entry-level AAlchemy QX 4232A graphics subsystem includes four VSA-100 chips with a total of 128 MB for a low $10,000

The mid-range AAlchemy QX 8264 graphics subsystem includes eight 3dfx VSA-100 chips with a total of 512 MB of graphics memory for a low $20,000

The flagship AAlchemy TX 8464 graphics subsystem includes sixteen 3dfx VSA-100 chips with a total of 1,024 MB of graphics memory, only $40,000.

The reason why there are so much is because they are part of a rack-mount dual P3 800/933Mhz system. Tho there website says they use P4's now....
 
Ok maybe it was the kyro 1 I'm thinking of. One of them was actually close in performance to ATI/NV when it was released, but they didn't release a new part to compete with the 6 month cycles of ATI/NV maybe...
 
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