New player to GFX world!

jeuda

XGItech!

See their range of products!

http://www.xgitech.com/products/XGIP...09032003En.pdf

Their enthusiast product actually feature 2 GPU on a single PCB board. That is what we are looking for... duo GPU, dual the fun!



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.

True Hardware DirectX9
Both Volari Duo 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 highly efficient pixel pipelines, 3D environments now come alive with cinematic realism and movie-studio caliber graphics. Advanced developers can take advantage of the Volari Duo processor’s fully programmable DirectX9 functions to deliver visual experiences never before seen on the PC.



Volari Duo

Volari™ Duo V8 Ultra Specifications

Blazing-fast PCI Bus Interface
- 32-bit PCI local bus standard Revision 2.2 compliant
- True AGP2.0 & AGP3.0 Compliant configuration setting
- Hardware auto detect for AGP1.0, AGP2.0 or AGP3.0 mode support
Double Octa-pipe 3D Engine
- Extreme High performance 256-bit 3D engine
- High order surface tessellation
- Optimized hardware geometry transform/lighting/setup engine
- Total of 4 units of Vertex Shader with Fully compliant Direct3D 9.0 Vertex Shader ver. 2.0
- Total of 8 sets of Pixel Shader (2.0) with Fully compliant Direct3D 9.0 Pixel Shader ver. 2.0
- 16 sets high performance pixel rendering pipelines
- Supports Bump Mapping, Mipmapped Cubic Mapping and Volume Texture supports flat and Gouraud shading
- High quality anisotropic filtering
- Supports 2-side stencil.
- 2X/4X full scene anti-aliasing(FSAA)
Ultimate Performance 2D Engine
- Hardware command queue
- High-speed Direct Draw Accelerator
- Hardware GDI 2000 Accelerator
- Source read-buffer to minimize engine wait-state
- Built-in destination read-buffer to minimize engine wait-state
High Definition TV-OUT Solution with XV301
- PAL and NTSC Systems.
- Composite, S-Video, and Component RGB Output Signals
- Macrovision Copy Protection Process Rev. 7.1.L1
- HDTV 480i/480p/1080i/720p YPbPr Output Signals.
- A single link TMDS transmitter with excellent scaling capability for TFT LCD panel display
MPEG-2 Video Decoder

- MPEG-2 MP@ML standards compliant
- Supports up to 20 Mbit/sec bit rate decoding
- True hardware VCD, DVD and HDTV decoding
Video Accelerator
- YUV-to-RGB color space conversion
- Bi-linear video interpolation with integer increments of 1/2048
- Complete graphics and video overlay function
- Hardware video decoder interface
- Independent VBI capture
- Supports DVD sub-picture playback overlay
- Built-in independent Gamma correction RAM
Proprietary Cipher Video Processor
- 5 fields per-pixel motion detection de-interlace function, video sources from MPEG decoder, Video capture and AVI interfaces.
- Down scaling function and scaling vector as 1/2, 1/4.
- Next generation de-interlaced and 1/2 down scaling function.
Display Memory Interface
- Supports DDR SDRAM, DDR-II SDRAM type to 256M Bytes memory
BitFluent Architecture (XGI Volari Duo Only)

- Advanced interface for dual GPU solution
- Up to 2.13GB bus bandwidth
High Integration

- Programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 400 MHz pixel clock
- Built-in VIP interface
- VESA Plug & Display for PanelLink Interface
- Built-in Thermal Diode for GPU Security-Update
Miscellaneous

- Supports 32K/64K/128K Bytes ROM decoding
- Supports 20MHz SPI ROM interface 1140-balls 37.5mm x 37.5mm FC-BGA package

http://www.xgitech.com

Shadow Lady

this is no ATI -.-

menain, wrong forum dude

PoopyTheJ

woah! What is this? Who are they? What???!!!

BWX

Is this the first anyone has heard of this?

Dyre Straits

This should have gone in the

Other Upcoming Video Cards Thread

HsuGotaQ

From HardOCP

Nuff said.

BWX

I'm sure the mods will see it soon and move it.

BWX

HA- it smelled like an Sis-trident type claim.. Shoulda known.

HsuGotaQ

Funny enough that was the same reaction I had... and it just so happened that the next website I checked out after reading this post was HardOCP. I even check out Google and could only find barely two pages of links pointing to XGITech related info (most chinese/japanese). Hopefully the product they are trying to bring to the market will be up to par (more competition, more price wars, happier gamers). But in this case, I won't say anything until they can show me the goods. I would also like to know if this card really has the first Dual Graphics Processor. (didn't SGI and even 3DFx came out with this before them)?

Woops... forgot to add this from the XGITech website :

DallasStar

moved

PoopyTheJ

Yeah more competition would be good but umm this is from their site also

Volari™ Duo V8 Ultra Specifications

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BitFluent Architecture (XGI Volari Duo Only)

- Advanced interface for dual GPU solution
- Up to 2.13GB bus bandwidth


Doesn't the 9800Pro have like 24Gb/s? Is this the same thing? I don't know but more competition would be great, lower prices! They're supposedly releasing at comdex, hope they have more to show/offer than DeltaChrome

BWX

Maybe they meant the first DX9 dual GPU-
But I have to be skeptical when they start out by making huge claims about being the biggest, fastest, most efficient, etc....

When they start out with a bunch of half-truths and outright lies, it's hard to take anything they say seriously. I hope the best for them, it would be good for everyone if they could back up the claims.. But we will see.

jeuda

Well, talents can be pulled from other companies. I hope that we are not too particular with company names. Consumers always wanted quality and priced rightly products. We should always be open to innovations.

BWX

Do you remember SiS and trident? Remember the claims? Remember the performance?

Dyre Straits

Or, more aptly, the lack of performance.

Vampyromaniac

They are talking about the AGP bus. AGP 8x has 2.1GB/s bandwidth. You were thinking of memory bandwidth. Yep that's what they said:

BWX

Yeah right-- lack of performance. After all the hype too- I guess we will see about this one too.

jeuda

haha.. i cannot say anything about the performance, I am not related to the gfx or company in any way. Just say "we will wait and see" I am sure someone will be very keen to benchmark it. Just watch and see....

HawK

Well I would say their lack of stability..... what stability??
But maybe this time it is all better, although the specs didnt make me jump
hope they have some reasonble drivers too..

jeuda

yeap, give others a chance, if you were in their shoes, I am sure you wanted that too.

mainman

Well guys lets just wait and see, so far it looks good on paper, but so did the nv fx and look what that turn out to be, like i said time will tell.

BWX

Yup, then we can start laughing, or fall over dead w/ a heart attack from shock if it does what it says it can.

jeuda

Gosh, u are just plain pessimistic about it. Think we should drop this discussionm, yea?

BWX

I am guilty of that, you are right.


Not at all, who knows, we all may be surprised. Crazier things haver happened.



Wait a second, no they haven't..

HawK

Yah, but on paper they always look good, Parhelia comes to mind..
That said, by making things on paper, it seems you can make a living out of it

So yeah lets wait for the gaming results, I just don't beliefe Benchmarks anymore.

jeuda