Voodoo 6000

[Foxor`]

I was just reading up on old tech , i used to own a voodoo1 + 3 cards, then i noticed this bit of text on a "fastest cpu a voodoo 6 will work with" test,

"In timedemo one the card scores 20 FPS, the funny thing is the limiting factor isn't the V6K but the Barton 3000+ CPU! There is no change in FPS score when shifting from 640 x 480, 800 x 600 & 1024 x 768. The 2.2 ghz CPU just can't feed the video card fast enough while running this complex game at those resolutions."

hmm im not sure this is true? isnt the fact that the V6 cant render more then 20fps fullstop in doom 3 lol?

What do people think ?

voodoo 6's wernt even top of the range in there day (alltho they had 4 gpu's in the analog SLi (on one board))

not sure if i can post the website if i mod could advise,

Foxor-

 

[chaparral]

voodoo 6's wernt even top of the range in there day (alltho they had 4 gpu's in the analog SLi (on one board))-

The voodoo 6 card never went retail..
The two core 5500agp was the highest card they brought to retail.

 

[Foxor`]

i never said retail, there are quite a lot of V6 boards floating about, with many benchmarks showing them beating GF2's and 10-20% slower then a GF3, can a GF3 even render doom3 @ 20fps?? and the question wasnt if they were retail, the closest they got to retail was a few hundred being sold to Quantum3D to be in there TOTR pc's for the day......

 

[Foxor`]

the links here
"http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/index.htm"

click on benchmarks on the left collum,

 

[Curio]

Probably because the Voodoo's didn't have hardware T&L so they were very reliant on CPU grunt. Still not sure the V6000 could manage 20fps+ in D3 tho....even on the end of a top end A64.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Even if it does 20fps in DoomIII it is in the lowest detail setting and hacked so without any lighting etc...

Compared to current videocards it is very outdated.

 

[Foxor`]

im not saying id try it lol, just that its impressive (kinda) that its possible...

 

[Dutch Guy]

im not saying id try it lol, just that its impressive (kinda) that its possible...

What amazes me is the difference between the V5 6000 and current high end, it is massive and to think the V5 6000 wasn't even released.

It is fun to see it is possible but if you think about it the card gets spanked by a GF4 card.

 

[paradigm]

It is fun to see it is possible but if you think about it the card gets spanked by a GF4 card.

But yet part of me always has, and probably always will want to own a voodoo 6000.

 

[Dutch Guy]

But yet part of me always has, and probably always will want to own a voodoo 6000.

I know, I'm still gutted I sold my Voodoo2, Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 5500 cards as I needed cash to buy new parts

They would look great in a frame on the wall

 

[paradigm]

If i'd have kept every video card I have owned, it would need more than a single frame to hold them in!

Never bought a 3dfx card after the V3 3500 though, wanted to hold out for the 6000

Rage fury MAXX was an interesting card to play with at the time too!

 

[Dutch Guy]

Rage fury MAXX was an interesting card to play with at the time too!

Was that the dual GPU card with a lot of driver problems?

 

[paradigm]

Was that the dual GPU card with a lot of driver problems?

It was indeed, very little support from anything, but as with most "rare" technologies, the fun was in trying something new. It was actually quite quick for its time.

Problem was ATI rapidly ceased development of it, and the Radeon DDR 64MB VIVO was just around the corner.

Preferred messing with my dual 12MB Voodoo 2's however UT was stonking on that setup! (as was quake1 and quake2).

 

[VeNT]

oh I've still got my V3 2000 somewhere!

I think that anyone who has ever owned a 3DFx card will always have a soft spot for them, they are like AMD in the old day, the little company who tryed somthing compleatly different, totaly new.

 

[ramirez]

Absolutely, there was something satisfying about the 'click' my Orchid Voodoo 1 4mb made when an application started using it

 

[VeNT]

I don't know much about it, but from what I see their first and biggest mistake was buying that chip plant.

I know they had issues with supply amd though it would help with that, but tbh that was one of the worst business disisions I've ever seen.