Voodoo5 6000 Preview

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Remember though, back at E3 3dfx showed off the whole side-by-side comparison of the GF2 and V56000/5500. Every writeup I can currently remember praised the Voodoo as having superiour image quality and FSAA.

They also showed off Q3 running at the rediculously high 2048x1536x32 at a choppy, though *playable* framerate. This was also in May, four months ago.

1024x768x32 with 4X FSAA and all bells and whistles at 60+ FPS is totally possible.

If I remember correctly, 3dfx themselves claimed that 75 FPS was possible with the same settings.

I guess we'll see, though...

Holy smokes, there's actually intelligent on-topic discussions in this thread.

I want high-performance VR goggles over any card. It's time to bring on real VR...

please Carmack?

OK, a jokes a joke, but this card is too big and....
(old technology was big, new things are meant to be small)

well, I dont want an external power supply or 4 chips.
It seems to 'make shift' and 'shit'

I dont feel sorry for 3dfx, they got lazy and probably sat around all day watching Judge Judy and repeats of Roasanne or something.

Lazy lazy boys

- "your mind is so motion blurred you cannot make any scentific prediction."

Amazing!

Btw.. Nvidia sux.. 3DFX sux.. S3 Virge Rulz

What I'd like to see is T&L offer anything meaningful to my gaming experience. Right now I see no change with what T&L offers vs no T&L and a fast CPU...

T&L right now makes no difference in the gaming experience, so people touting it are about as clueless as people that tout pixel shaders or T-Buffer effects.. hehe.

Show me something that is useful today, i.e., FSAA, and you'll show me something that I care about... T&L is a nice thing to think about, but it won't matter to me as a gamer until I can actually get a game that makes me say 'OMFG I NEED a hardware T&L card'...

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RD-Natoma
http://www.reddragons.com/

That thing looks like the fuggin "Boss Hoss" of motorcycles (the big gaudy V8 jury rigged bike). Sure, it is fast, but it's got no style.

Holy ASS

That thing looks like a large 80's laptop

why doesn't my RA3 work? it just can't find any servers all of a sudden

Ripped from an NG:

"Lets say the VSA chips come at a speed of 166Mhz. That means 1.37GPixels/sec. 8 Single textured pixels per clock, 4 Dual textured pixels per clock. In multitexturing mode, it's fillrate would drop to
667MPixels/sec. Now you say that this is lower than the GTS which is at
800Mpixels/sec, or the GTS Ultra which is at 1Gpixel/sec when they
multitexture.

*But*, the V5-6000 will actually have the bandwidth to back up that fillrate whereas we've seen the GF and GTS boards are badly bandwidth limited.

That's why I think in single texturing, the V5-6000 is going to utterly
obliterate the GTS and GTS Ultra, and in multitexturing it will still be a good deal faster. In single texturing the VSA can pump out 8 pixels/clock while the GTS and GTS Ultra can only pump out 4. In multitexturing the V5-600 can pump out 4 pixels/clock while the GTS and GTS Ultra can still only pump out 4, but they are badly bandwidth limited.

Now when you enable 4X FSAA on the V5-6000 during multitexturing it'll drop to where the framerate for 2X is on the 5500 during multitexturing, roughly.

God I want one. The 6000 is definitely going to be much faster than people think, especially due to its super high bandwidth."

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RD-Natoma
http://www.reddragons.com/

who the fuck would want a card that huge?

Shut up Marcus.

Sincerely,
Eric Dickerson
ABC Sports

Anonymizer.com is a haven for trolls.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

Anonymizer.com users are flamboyant homosexuals.

Incendiary Penis.

I stand by my earlier assertion that the Voodoo5-6000 is a rather large card.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

Wow.

Where's Marcus Allen when you need him?

Four fans whir softly,
Waiting for a bearing to go,
Chips fry quietly.

I have a geforceII 64mb,and it's fast as hell etc..p3-733 on tyan brd
320mb pc 133,300 watt pwr supply,well I like to play other games besides
q3, I'm into tribes UT diabloII and this geforce card is buggy IMHO.



so being the hardcore money wasting gamer fiend that I am,I went and got a voodoo5 5500,and what the hell fresh install of win98 well I did'nt know how good these games really look,kudos to 3dfx for fsaa...



no it's not nearly as fast as geforce but every game runs now without a hitch..flame if you like but I'll stick with 3dfx,diablo's minions will now grow stronger gnight shacker's

sweet jeebus that thing must park its ass between two dimm slots or something

Maybe it was 1.5 up.

4 cds worth of 160 kb mp3s ... hehehe

3dfx's Voodoo5-6000 is a rather large video card.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

I will combine two,yes two geforce2 GTS Ultras in a sli configuration and kick the v5-6000 Ass,I will then procede to perform brain surgery on small farm animals!

heh this ff9 sdtk is so new www.cddb.com doesnt have it yet...hehe

Bigger is better.

This is the soundtrack not the game...hehe

*bets the v5 6000 is nothing but vaporware and a joke for a laugh from 3dfx while they really finish the next gen card*

there's a special on the radio,there doing interviews with rock groups and are doing a piece on "Jimi" right now,of course his not with us so they are talking to people who worked with him,this has been on all day and it's pretty good.I think you all could find it on a local radio station as this isn't a local deal,it's nation wide.