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3dfx
Voodoo5 5500
Manufacturer
: 3dfx
Retail
Price : $299
Reviewed
by:
Date
: July 21st 2000
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Key
Features
Voodoo5
5500
- Two 3dfx
VSA-100
- 64MB memory
- 4 fully-featured
pixels/clock
- 667 megapixels/s
fill rate (at 166 MHz)
- 2/4 Sample
FSAA
- Full scene
anti-aliasing at 2 or 4 samples
- Focus:
depth-of-field blur
- Motion:
motion blur
- Soft shadows
and reflections
VSA-100
- Fully
integrated 128-bit 2D/3D/Video accelerator
- 14 million
transistors
- Manufactured
in an enhanced .25 micron, 6 layer metal, CMOS process
- 166MHz
graphics core working frequency
- Dual pixel
pipeline: 2 rendering pipelines with 1 texturing blocks each
- 333 megatexel/megapixel
fill rate
- 350 MHz
integrated RAMDAC
- 32-bit
RGBA Color Rendering
- 32-bit
Textures · 2Kx2K Textures
- Up to 24-bit
Z & W buffers
- 8-bit stencil
buffer
- 128-bit
memory interface (per VSA-100)
- Each VSA-100
chip supports up to 4-64MB local graphics SDRAM/SGRAM
- PCI 2.2
and AGP 2x/4x with SBA and DME
- Support
for all major APIs including Glide®, DirectX®, and OpenGL®
- Full scene
anti-aliasing in hardware
- Single-pass,
single cycle tri-linear filtering
- Single-pass,
single-cycle multitexturing
- Single-pass,
single-cycle bump mapping
- Per pixel
mip-mapping and alpha-blending
- 8-bit palletized
textures with full bilinear filtering
- Table and
pixel fog
- Full hardware
setup of triangles parameters
- Supports
multi-triangle strips and fans
- DXTC, FXT1
and Narrow Channel texture compression
- Dynamic
environmental texturing
- All DirectX
7 and OGL 1.2 texture blends
3DFX`s Voodoo
4/5 product line is based on the VSA-100 scaleable chip architecture.
The chip could be scaled to dual, quad or even up to a 32-processor
setup for more performance. Having 32 processors does sound a
little absurd & too costly but technically it is achievable. Hence
the price difference we see in the Voodoo4 5000(single processor),
Voodoo5 5500(Dual processor) and the Voodoo5 6000(Quad processor's).
We'll be taking a closer look at the Voodoo5 5500 which sports
Dual processors giving it a combined total of 64 MB's of 166MHz
SDRAM.
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