3DMark03 measures performance by simulating games written to DirectX 9, which are contemporary games. In this software we ran two tests, both at 1024x768x32. Since we were evaluating low-end video cards, we decided to not run our tests in higher resolutions, since rarely a user that buys a video card from this level will push resolutions above 1024x768 in 3D games.

We ran this software without antialiasing and with no anisotropic filtering. Unfortunately Volari 8300 does not support antialiasing, so we couldn't compare it to other video cards enabling 3D video quality enhancements.

At the default 3DMark03 configuration, XGI Volari 8300 128 MB was 8.79% faster than GeForce 6200 TC 16 MB 64-bit (Leadtek), 19.95% faster than Radeon X300 128 MB 128-bit (ATI), 19.95% faster than Radeon X300 SE HM 128 MB 64-bit (PowerColor) and 54.11% faster than i915G (Intel D915GEV).

XGI Volari 8300 128 MB was beaten by GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (nVidia), which was 273.06% faster, Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB 128-bit (ATI), which was 160.38% faster, GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron), which was 129.91% faster, GeForce 6200 128 MB 128-bit (Leadtek), which was 76.97% faster and GeForce 6200 TC 64 MB 64-bit (XFX), which was 13.41% faster.