In theory the TNT2/GF2 should've had better image quality given they supported 32bit colour instead of 16bit or "22bit" on the Voodoo2.
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Back from the Dead: 3dfx's Unreleased Voodoo5 6000 Quad-GPU Card
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It was indeed, but in terms of fps it got its arse kicked by the GeForce 2 GTS and Ultra. My GeForce256 DDR beats my V5 5500 in many games and that was previous gen.
A V5 6000 would’ve been rapid but only by virtue of brute force, and as someone has already suggested, it may well have lost out to the GF2 Ultra in a number of tests.
Now, if we’re talking FSAA and iq that’s a different matter entirely!
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I recall some of the next-gen games running at a snails pace, it was like it went from being a top performer to an also-ran overnight.
Though, of course, back then one got a lot less mileage out of a GPU than you potentially can today.
I remember it costing me 200 green queens (£200 for about the best card you could buy at the time!
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Sud-hian media had a review of a 6000 back in the day and the gf2 ultra and gf3 were trading blows with the 6k from what i remember of it. Realistically reviews probably don't really show its true performance as official drivers supporting the 4 cores never appeared so community made drivers might not be getting the most of it.
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Ah, way back when ... my first 'proper' graphics card was a Hercules Stingray Voodoo Rush card, one of the first combined 2d/3d cards. Big news back in the day, and being able to play GLQuake was amazing!
3dfx crashing and burning was a shame, but after their first couple of generations they seemed to lose the ability to innovate and their cards were just "slam more chips on there and push the clocks! Even more chips! I said more!"
3dfx crashing and burning was a shame, but after their first couple of generations they seemed to lose the ability to innovate and their cards were just "slam more chips on there and push the clocks! Even more chips! I said more!"
Nothing to do with not being able to innovate, it was down to bad management. The rampage project kept getting delayed as management wanted stop gap products to be made like voodoo banshee. Rampage got delayed and had portions remade due to feature creep. Basically everything after voodoo 2 was made out of necessity to have competing products on sale due to the delays rampage got hit with.
Before 3dfx had vsa100 gpu samples back, that's one of the things they used to show performance estimates and the t buffer effects.
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Do people even buy this stuff anymore? I am cleaning up in the attic and have this Voodoo 5500 PCI DVI? It was originally for a MAC but I flashed it with a PC bios back in the day. I originally bought it for N64 emulation as if I remember correctly glide was the closest thing to emulating the N64 graphics at the time.
A quick ebay check and they are going for several hundred pounds but they are all AGP versions and without DVI which makes mine extremely rare?
A quick ebay check and they are going for several hundred pounds but they are all AGP versions and without DVI which makes mine extremely rare?
Not extremely rare, but not common. I’ve got the same as you - pci mac v5 flashed for pc. They’re sought after as you can run them alongside an agp card. Good find! If you don’t want to keep it you’ll get a decent amount for it as they’re still pretty popular.
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Been in the loft digging around and managed to find some old bits to build a PC. Good news is the Voodoo 5500 PCI boots but I cannot do a fresh install of Windows XP because the old mobo needs a floppy disc to side load sata drivers for my Sata drive as XP will not recognise the drive.....
What a pain in the backside old PC's were!
I had the same. I could never remember the name until your post
But I could never get sli to work, so I sold the second card. I think it was because the second card was of a different brand and it just didn't like it.
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That was part of the ‘fun’ mate
A gotek or similar will do the trick, and it’s worth having one of those lying around for all types of retro machines
It seems my windows XP that I had in the loft was an early version. Managed to find a later version and rip the ISO to CD which loaded all the SATA drivers so managed to install a fresh XP install on the WD Raptor I had lying about and gave the card a run down on RTCW. Before I knew it was midnight!
I forgot how fun doing an old school desktop build was as you have to find everything and install everything. These days you just stick in the ethernet cable and go for a cup of tea and come back 10 minutes later.
Stuck it on auction and will see what it does!
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Wolfenstein!
Go go UT`99
I have maybe 4-5 plastic containers full of games in the loft. Was thinking what would be a good test for the card. Couldn't find UT99 but I did find 2K4 but that game is a bit new for that card.