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The Package
As the card was just released, XGI sent us a white box package, instead of a retail package. If this card is sold at retail outlets, you can be sure it won't be in this form.
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While the box is tough enough to withstand the trauma of postal service, it's good to see that XGI padded the insides with bubble wrap. The Volari 8300 card itself was enclosed within a separate anti-static bag.
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Inside, we found the following items :
- One XGI Volari 8300 PCIe graphics card
- One Friends : The Series Finale DVD
- One XGI driver CD
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Again, the spartan bundle is due to the fact that this is a white box package. A retail package should come with more than just the card and a CD. Incidentally, the Friends DVD was part of the package for use in our DVD playback quality tests. It's unlikely that the retail package will come with the DVD.
Volari 8300 Specifications
Architecture |
• NA |
Manufacturing Process |
• 0.13 Micron |
Transistor Count |
• NA |
DirectX Support |
• 9.0b |
Interface |
• PCI Express |
Vertex Pipelines |
• 2 |
Vertex Shader Version |
• 2.0 Extended |
Pixel / Texture Pipelines |
• 8 x 2 |
Pixel Shader Version |
• 2.0 Extended |
Core Speed |
• 300 MHz |
Fill Rate |
• 4800 MTexels/s |
Memory Bus Width |
• 64-bits |
Memory Type |
• DDR |
Memory Speed |
• 350 MHz (700 MHz DDR) |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 5.6 GB/s |
TruShader™ SE Graphics Engine |
• Hierarchical pixel tiling for page based rendering |
CoolPower™ II |
• Unified software & hardware architecture for power management |
TrueVideo™ Engine |
• State-of-the-art pixel based motion and edge adaptive de-interlace |
Output Displays |
• Three simultaneous outputs: CRT, DVI and TV out |
Graphics Standards |
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MICROSOFT® graphics standard for Windows® XP and 2000 |
