XGI Volari performance numbers now out (Preliminary, 3dmark only)

[SunnyD]

Warning - article states these numbers are performance ESTIMATES from XGI

Looks like they're aiming for current generation performance. If the price point is decent, we may have a player. However, remember, this is SiS and Trident, both low-end players and if I recall, worse drivers than ATi and NVIDIA employees' children could ever have written. But at least it's a dedicated video graphics company now. Let's see what they're going to give us.

The dual Volari Duo V8 Ultra with 16 pipelines and supporint 1000MHz DDR 2 or DDR 375MHz + is claimed to deliver 5500-5600 which is almost the same as a Radeon 9800 Ultra or Geforce FX 5900 Ultra. The two GPUs will work at 350 MHz. These cards will have 16 pipelines, eight per chip and I guess two TMS since each chip should have at least one TMU, four Vertex and eight Pixel shaders.

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The Volari Duo V5 Ultra mainstream card with a 350MHz core and up to 512MB or DDR 1 or 2, like the V8, will have eight pipelines and four Pixel and Vertex shaders (version 2.0) and is anticipated to deliver over 4000+ marks. In this case we are talking more about four pipelines times two chips and the same goes for shaders as well -- as each chip have 2 shader units only. This option is even faster than the current performance leader, the Radeon 9500 Pro, that delivers about 3600 marks.

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[BoomAM]

We shouldnt hold it against them, them being SiS/Trident. Their cards were ok for the price.
Its just the drivers that`ll probably let them down.