XGI Volari 8300 For Desktop amp; Mobile

XGI Technology Inc., the world's third largest graphics chipset designcompany, today launched a new member of its graphics family, the Volari™ 8300,with a press event held in Beijing, inviting over 100 IT journalists to theaffair. The new PCI-Express based Volari™ 8300 graphics chipset is designed withXGI's flagship video processing technology, TrueVideo™ Engine, to satisfy theincreasing demand of video processing power for home PCs.

“The Volari™ 8300 has raised the bar for what we called an entry level graphicssolution” said Ralph Cheng, the Vice President of Marketing of XGI. “With thehigher demand in video quality, the Volari™ 8300 supports various videoenhancing features that can only be found in high-end competitor products.Moreover, Volari™ 8300 provides sufficient support for 3D gaming, making thisundoubtedly the most economical investment for everyday user.”

Volari™ 8300 is designed with 0.13 um processing that supports DirectX 9.0, andshader model 2.0 with 64 bit DRAM memory interface. XGI introduced a new conceptwith Volari™ 8300, the eXtreme Cache™, an advanced technology that dynamicallyallocates system memory to support graphics processing. With the additionalbandwidth of PCI Express, eXtreme Cache™ is able to reach higher levels ofgraphics performance and effectively support up to 256MB of memory for graphicsprocessing. This flexible design ultimately enhances the cinematic graphicexperience from XGI™ graphic hardware and is a more cost-effective solution forthe intensive graphics support required from time-to-time.

As high definition contents are on the rise, the Volari™ 8300 has taken a stepfurther with their built-in true hardware video enhancement technology, theTrueVideo™ Engine, to satisfy the tough requirements from MCE. Thiscomprehensive video enhancement features the support for HDTV content up to1280x720p; inverse 3:2 Pull-down to convert movies back to its original form andDe-Interlacing, to remove the jaggy lines in motion graphics. Furthermore, theCoolPower II low power consumption design allows Volari™ 8300 to be built into afan-less graphics solution, making it the ideal solution for digital homeentertainment.

XGI™ continues to co-operate with industry leading content providers for bettersupport on Games and Software Applications. This year, XGI has worked closelywith US game vendor and top online game vendors in Asia, all in the efforts toensure top game play quality and stability on Volari™ 8300. Nonetheless, it hasalso qualified for the requirement of Microsoft® MCE, making XGI™ Volari™ 8300the Number 1 graphics solution for Entertainment on the PC.

Specifications

Native PCI Express Bus Interface

Ultra high-speed x16 (16-lane) PCI Express buses Revision 1.0aSupport x1/x8/x16 PCI Express Bus

Performance

Up to 300MHz engine and 300MHz memory clockPixel fill rate: 600 million PS-shaded pixels per second and 1.2 billionflat-shaded pixels per secondTexel processing rate: 4.8 billion texels per second5.6GB per second memory bandwidth

TruShader™ SE Graphics Engine

Hierarchical pixel tiling for page based rendering2x2 pixel pipelines and 4 independent Pixel Shaders2 pixels/clock with 8 texel/pixelTexture size up to 8Kx8K and non-power of 2Bi-linear, tri-linear and anisotropic texture filteringHigh order texture filtering up to 8x8 kernelLinear sRGB color formatMET and MRTFloating color buffer (up to 32 bit)Floating texture formats (up to 32 bit)Full anti-aliasing support for texts, lines, scenesSpecial multi-resolution depth bufferSpecial bandwidth reduction hardware via compressionMulti-level cachesFully OpenGL-compliant blending including fog & depth cueing

CoolPower™ II

Unified software & hardware architecture for power managementDynamic clock gating, frequency scaling, work load balancingSupports INTEL-defined Device Performance States (DPS)Supports PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM)Optional battery optimizer under user control

TrueVideo™ Engine

State-of-the-art pixel based motion and edge adaptive de-interlaceInverse 3:2 pull downMotion and object based adaptive edge smoothingOverdrive technology for Ultra Clear TFT LCD image qualitySupports HDTV resolution up to 1280x720pProvides cubical interpolation with edge recovery

DVD Support

Microsoft's DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)Includes both Motion Compensation and IDCT hardwareReal-time playback (30 fps) of 9.8 Mbps MPEG-2 video bit stream

Output Displays

Three simultaneous outputs: CRT, DVI and TV outIntegrated TMDS for interface to DVI up to 1600x1200Integrated NTSC/PAL encoder up to 1024x768350 MHz RAMDAC for CRT up to 2048x153690° and 180° HW rotation support

Graphics Standard

MICROSOFT® graphics standard for Windows® XP and 2000DX9.0 Vertex Shader 2.0 Extended and Pixel Shader 2.0DX9.0c software compatibleOpenGL 1.5 compatible

Software

Windows® XP, 64-Bit Edition, 2000Windows® Vista (Longhorn)DirectX 9.0, 8.1 and 7.0OpenGL ICD 1.4 and 1.5LINUX (Red Hat and SuSE)