A New Graphics Kid on the Block: XGI Volari

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Test Setup

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General Hardware
MotherboardASUS P4P800 Deluxe, Intel i865PE chipset
ProcessorIntel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz (FSB800)
RAM2x 256 MB Kingston HyperX DDR400CL2 / 6-2-2-2
Drivers & Configuration
Graphic CardsATI Radeon 9800 XT 256 MB (Reference)ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (Reference)ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128 MB (Reference)ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB (Reference)ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB (Hercules)ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128 MB (Reference)NVIDIA GF FX5950 Ultra (Reference)NVIDIA GF FX5900 Ultra (Reference)NVIDIA GF FX5700 Ultra (eVGA)NVIDIA GF FX5600 Ultra FC (Reference)XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra (Reference (Beta))
Graphics DriverATI Catalyst v3.7ATI Catalyst v3.8NVIDIADetonator FX v52.16XGI Reactor 031024
Chipset DriverIntel
DirectX Version9.0b
OSWindows XP Professional SP1

As mentioned above, anisotropic filtering and FSAA are currently not usable in XGI's beta drivers. Additionally, the trilinear texture filter does not work in many cases. Consequently, these results should not be taken as indicative of the card's final performance.