XGI Volari V8: specs and benchmarks

Summary

XGI started Volari V8 sales 15 September 2003. This is a desktop graphics card based on a XG4 architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.45 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about XGI Volari V8: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code name	XG40
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	15 September 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

XGI Volari V8's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of XGI Volari V8's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	300 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	110 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	2.400	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	4	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of XGI Volari V8 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 8x
Width	1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on XGI Volari V8: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	450 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on XGI Volari V8. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by XGI Volari V8, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0
OpenGL	1.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of XGI Volari V8. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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