Hexus.net have thrown up their review of XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra 256MB video card!
Technologically-speaking, the Volari Duo V8 is an up-to-date design. Each chip contains 8 rendering pipelines that make it into a 16-pipe design. That's GeForce6 and Radeon X800 XT country, folks. Add in the 350MHz clock speed and you have a potential fillrate of 5.6GPixels/s. Compare that with the Radeon 9800 XT's 3.296GTexel/s. 2 chips dictate a dual 128bit memory controller. To that end, XGI uses 900MHz-rated DDRII modules. Another quick calculation reveals potential bandwidth of 28.8GB/s. Potential is the key word in the last two sentences. Hitting the maximum limit is difficult for a first-time design.
It's not all about sheer grunt. XGI's Volari Duo V8 Ultra is a full DirectX 9.0 GPU. There's support for Pixel Shader 2.0, with each GPU carrying 4 pixel shader units. Similarly, there's 2 vertex shaders on each chip, making 4 in total. FSAA and anisotropic filtering both top out at 4X. It all sounds simple on paper, but how have XGI surmounted the problems of running 2 chips on one board?. XGI terms this enabling technology as BitFluent.
XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra 256MB
Thanks Dark Biene
Technologically-speaking, the Volari Duo V8 is an up-to-date design. Each chip contains 8 rendering pipelines that make it into a 16-pipe design. That's GeForce6 and Radeon X800 XT country, folks. Add in the 350MHz clock speed and you have a potential fillrate of 5.6GPixels/s. Compare that with the Radeon 9800 XT's 3.296GTexel/s. 2 chips dictate a dual 128bit memory controller. To that end, XGI uses 900MHz-rated DDRII modules. Another quick calculation reveals potential bandwidth of 28.8GB/s. Potential is the key word in the last two sentences. Hitting the maximum limit is difficult for a first-time design.
It's not all about sheer grunt. XGI's Volari Duo V8 Ultra is a full DirectX 9.0 GPU. There's support for Pixel Shader 2.0, with each GPU carrying 4 pixel shader units. Similarly, there's 2 vertex shaders on each chip, making 4 in total. FSAA and anisotropic filtering both top out at 4X. It all sounds simple on paper, but how have XGI surmounted the problems of running 2 chips on one board?. XGI terms this enabling technology as BitFluent.
XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra 256MB
Thanks Dark Biene
