XGI Volari 8300: specs and benchmarks
Summary
XGI started Volari 8300 sales 1 November 2005. 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. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.3 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 4.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about XGI Volari 8300: 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 | XG47 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 November 2005 (19 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
XGI Volari 8300's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of XGI Volari 8300's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 90 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.400 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of XGI Volari 8300 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 | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on XGI Volari 8300: 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 | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 128 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 300 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 4.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on XGI Volari 8300. 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, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by XGI Volari 8300, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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Recommended processors
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