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Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra Review: XGI Volari Family Coming to Graphics Market (page 27)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov , Tim Tscheblockov

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

In Aquamark3 the graphics card from Club3D performs not bad at all and gets close to RADEON 9800 PRO and GeForce FX 5900. Nevertheless, the first XGI Reactor driver version was optimized exactly for Aquamark3 test, besides others. The new version of the driver is free from any cheats: at least we didn’t see any performance changes after the aquamark.exe file had been renamed. For a more illustrative comparison the diagrams above also contain the results shown by Volari Duo with the old XGI Reactor driver and renamed aquamark.exe file.

Now let’s check the image quality in this test:

The problems with the texture level of detail and lighting are evident here. Unfortunately, XGI’s attempts to help its Volari run as fast as the competitors were either vain or required significant image quality losses.