Yea, BitTech's review is a bit puzzling as other reviews of the V3XT pointed out good video performance, then again BitTech didn't mention which codec or video player was used.
There's a review of the V3XT using PowerDVD VGA Test showing the V3XT beaten by a Radeon 9600, however the V3XT outperformed the Geforce 5500 OC in this video test: http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/xgivolariv3xt/index.php The reviewer also praised, I quote, the card's "sharp TV-out image quality" Another point is that XGI now has open source drivers available on x.org and xfree86.org, BUT they only open sourced the 2D part of the drivers. The V3XT card probably is more powerful, more features and cheaper than what OGC will look like IMO. However, I doubt they will want their hardware to be available under GPL, or even whether they can do that for IP reasons. --- Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bit-tech has a review of an XGI based budget card at > > http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/05/03/club3d_volari_v3xt/1.html > > It looks very similar to what the first generation > OGC will be like. > Half-height, DVI, VGA, composite, S-video, 250 MHz, > two fragment pipes, > except that it has a vertex shader which we won't > have (it's not very useful > anyway IMHO, anything requiring vertex shaders won't > run on a card like this > anyway). 128 MB of memory as well. > > It's supposed to do hardware MPEG-2 and > deinterlacing as well, but the 9200 SE > outperforms it in DVD playback, and according to the > review DVD playback was > unwatchable. And of course, when you're playing WMV > or DivX MPEG-2 > acceleration is not that much use anyway. > > So, in summary, it looks pretty similar to what OGC > will look like > hardware-wise, but it has more features. On the > other hand, the OGC will > actually work :). > > Comments? > > Lourens > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
