XGI Technology
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XGI Technology Inc. (Traditional Chinese:圖誠科技) is based upon the old graphics division of SiS spun off as a separate company, and the graphics assets of Trident Microsystems.
Products
In December of 2003, XGI announced the Volari Duo, a graphics card with two GPUs. This was seen as part of a potentially successful attempt to become competitive with ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corporation, which were then the two largest GPU manufacturers in the world.
A few months after the announced release of XGI graphics cards were found by enthusiasts and hardware reviewers to be less than competitive with ATi and Nvidia cards. Some of the many performance and visualization problems were blamed on underdeveloped drivers. Even so XGI cards received good reviews in the low priced/low performance video card market: XGI Volari V3 cards were judged by some reviewers to be competitive and even superior to equally priced video cards that were on the market. Many reviewers though were pessimistic of the possibility that XGI would competitive in the 3D graphic card market.
On March 6, 2006, XGI sold its branches in US and Shanghai to ATI Technologies and exited from the desktop graphics market.
Chipset table
| Volari 8300 | Volari Duo V8 Ultra | Volari V8 Ultra | Volari V5 Ultra | |
| Chipset | XG40 | XG40 | XG40 | XG41 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process (nm) | 130 | 130 | 130 | 130 |
| Transistors (millions) | 90? | 2(90) | 90 | 90? |
| Interface | PCIe | AGP | AGP | AGP |
| Vertex Pipelines | 2 | 2 x 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Vertex Shader Version | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Pixel / Texture Pipelines | 8 x 2 | 2(8 x 2) | 8 x 2 | 4 x 2 |
| Core Speed (MHz) | 300 | 350 | 350 | 350 |
| Fill Rate (MTexels/s) | 4800 | 11200 | 5600 | 2800 |
| Memory Bus Width (bits) | 64 | 256 | 128 | 128 |
Cards
Its line of graphics cards included:
- Volari Duo
- Volari V8 and V8 Ultra
- Volari V5
- Volari V3 and V3XT
- Volari VP5
- Volari Z7
References
- Olson, Sander (2003). Start-up graphics company could rival ATI and nVidia. Retrieved Dec. 13, 2003 from http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Dec/bch20031212023040.htm
- Volari Duo. Retrieved Dec. 13, 2003 from http://www.xgitech.com/products/products_2.asp?P=1
- [Performance review of Volari V8]
- [Performance review of Volari V8 Duo]
- [Performance review of Volari 8300]
- [Performance review of Volari V3XT]
External links
- [Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra Review]
- [XGI Technology Inc.]
- [VolariGamers]
- [XGI Volari 8300 Graphics Card]
[[zh-yue:圖誠科技]]
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