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Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra Review: XGI Volari Family Coming to Graphics Market (page 20)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov , Tim Tscheblockov

[ 01/15/2004 | 01:47 PM ]

We didn’t find any specific optimizations here, however, the overall performance of Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra turned out pretty low. It was much lower than that of RADEON 9600 XT, which has been considered an outsider in this benchmark.

We get the impression that OpenGL is a stumbling stone for all manufacturers trying to conquer the graphics market. As you remember, S3 Graphics also failed to develop a good driver for this API, although its performance is a little bit better than that of the XGI’s one. Anyway, since we have already seen the reaction of XGI Volari on enabled tri-linear filtering, we can also explain its failure in this OpenGL test by inefficient texture caching algorithms.