3DMark05 measures performance by simulating DirectX 9.0c games, i.e., using the new Shader 3.0 model. This programming model is used by Far Cry game and other games to be launched in the future. This new programming model is used by GeForce 6 and 7 series from NVIDIA and Radeon X1000 series from ATI.

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 3DMark05 configuration, XGI Volari 8300 128 MB was 3.70% faster than GeForce 6200 TC 16 MB 64-bit (Leadtek) and 191.91% faster than i915G (Intel D915GEV).

XGI Volari 8300 128 MB was beaten by GeForce 6600 GT 128 MB (NVIDIA), which was 254.85% faster, Radeon X1300 Pro 256 MB 128-bit (ATI), which was 177.82% faster, GeForce 6600 128 MB (Albatron), which was 108.42% faster, GeForce 6200 128 MB 128-bit (Leadtek), which was 52.67% faster, GeForce 6200 TC 64 MB 64-bit (XFX), which was 31.78% faster, % faster, Radeon X300 128 MB 128-bit (ATI), which was 10.30% faster and Radeon X300 SE HM 128 MB 64-bit (PowerColor), which was 9.90% faster.