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A Look At V5-6000

by Steve Gibson May 28, 2000 9:08am CST tags: 3dfx
After the big goofup at 3dfx with the Voodoo5-5500 delay there is a lot of speculation going around on if the V5-6000 monster will actually ship within the next few months. As most people probably remember the delay between the V3-3000 and V3-3500 was fumbled a bit and took quite a while. Well, according to 3dfx all other products are "still on schedule". That being the case, then we should be seeing the V5-6000 boards by this time next month. The word 3dfx was giving at E3 (according to Anandtech) was June 15th. While you are pondering that crazy $599 price tag you might want to have a look at this Tech-Report article which gives one of the most accurate looks at the technology Ive seen.

Mtexels/sec Bus Width Memory Bandwidth
GeForce2 1600 128bits 32mb(or64) 5.2GB/sec
V5-5500 667 128bits *2 32mb *2 5.2GB/sec
V5-6000 1333 128bits *4 32mb *4 10.4GB/sec

Now, looking at the benchmarks/comparisons between the GeForce2 and V5-5500, (example chart)the GF2 has more than double the MTexels/second fill rate of the V5-5500. If the fill rate were the bottleneck/limiting factor then you would expect the GF2 to come out with framerates of approx double. Bummer though, that isnt the case. Memory bandwidth is becoming more of an issue. How fast will the V5-6000 be? Really tough to tell. 3dfx isnt exactly known for stellar OpenGL drivers. I saw it running at WinHEC a little while back and my professional opinion is 'fast'.

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