XGI - Definition and Overview

XGI Technology Inc. is a manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and graphics cards.

In December of 2003, XGI announced the Volari Duo, a graphics card with two GPUs. This was seen as part of a potentially successful attempt to become competitive with ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corporation, which were then the two largest GPU manufacturers in the world.

A few months after the announced release XGI graphics cards were found by enthusiasts and hardware reviewers to be less then competitive with ATi and Nvidia cards. Some of the many performance and visualizations problems have been blamed on underdeveloped drivers. Even so XGI cards have gotten good reviews in the low priced/low performance video card market: XGI Volari V3 cards were judge by some reviewers competitive and even superior to equally priced video cards that where on the market. Many reviewers though are pessimistic on the possibility XGI will be competitive in the 3D graphic card market any time soon.

As of Dec, 2004 XGI represents less then 1% of the graphics card market.

Its current line of graphics cards include the:

• Volari Duo
• Volari V8 and V8 Ultra
• Volari V5
• Volari V3 and V3XT
• Volari VP5
• Volari Z7

References

• Olson, Sander (2003). Start-up graphics company could rival ATI and nVidia. Retrieved Dec. 13, 2003 from http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Dec/bch20031212023040.htm
• Volari Duo. Retrieved Dec. 13, 2003 from http://www.xgitech.com/products/products_2.asp?P=1
• Perfromance review of Volari V8 (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1611)
• Perfromance review of Volari V8 Duo (http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/volari-duo/)
• Perfromance review of Volari V3XT (http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=627&pid=2373)

External links

• XGI Technology Inc. (http://www.xgitech.com/)
• VolariGamers (http://www.volarigamers.com/)