Voodoo 5

The baroud d'honneur of a dying company. Technologically, it was once again a valuable product. It went head-to-head with its bitter enemy's product (GeForce256) and held its own. I will not say whether it was better or not, I believe it was a good product and deserved to keep the company afloat to continue the battle. Unfortunately, 3dfx had made some bad moves in getting itself its own fabs and refusing to sell chips to third-party graphics board makers. That move killed its financial ability to resist competition long enough to profit from the sales of its new and worthy flagship product.

Tech Sheet

Model 5500 RAMDAC 350 Mhz Transistor count (millions) Technology 0.25 micron Frequency 166 Mhz Onboard RAM 4-64 MB RAM bus width 128 bits RAM bus frequency 166 Mhz Memory bandwidth 5 300 MB/s Pixel fill rate 667 MPixels Texel fill rate 333 MTexels Render pipes 2 Pixel per Clock (per pipe) 2 Z-buffer 24 bit

I know there was the 6000 and the 5000, I just don't have any specs on those. I can say that the 6000 was supposed to be a real monster, with 4 GPUs one the card. Just imagine that, 4-way SLI ! I'm sure that card would have been a real performance monster (and power hog).

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