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

[vetteguy]

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?

 

[Shinei]

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.

 

[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

 

[Dman877]

Anyone remember the hercules kyro2? That chip actually had promise, the XGI crap had bad IQ and was much slower hen ATi/NV.

 

[Rage187]

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.

 

[nRollo]

The kyro sucked donkey balls.

It's true, donkeys haven't been the same since PowerVR went belly up. They just kind of wander around, looking tense.....

 

[NeoV]

I thought we were talking about the BitBoys project for a bit....

 

[VIAN]

quote:
The kyro sucked donkey balls.



It's true, donkeys haven't been the same since PowerVR went belly up. They just kind of wander around, looking tense.....

LOL

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: Rollo

The kyro sucked donkey balls.

It's true, donkeys haven't been the same since PowerVR went belly up. They just kind of wander around, looking tense.....

Actually; luckily for the donkeys XGI has taken the torch from powerVR.


Let sucking commence.

 

[vetteguy]

Yeah, XGI...now I remember. Are they even still in business? And, speaking of Bitboys, what's up with them?

 

[kylebisme]

bitboys makes video proccesors for handheld devices now.

 

[eplebnista]

XGI VolariGamers.com

 

[DragonFire]

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

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....

 

[Dman877]

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...