3dfx Voodoo5 5500

Voodoo5 5500

• Two 3dfx VSA-100
• 64MB memory
• 4 fully-featured pixels/clock
• 667 megapixels/s fill rate (at 166 MHz)
• 2/4 Sample FSAA
• Full scene anti-aliasing at 2 or 4 samples
• Focus: depth-of-field blur
• Motion: motion blur
• Soft shadows and reflections

VSA-100

• Fully integrated 128-bit 2D/3D/Video accelerator
• 14 million transistors
• Manufactured in an enhanced .25 micron, 6 layer metal, CMOS process
• 166MHz graphics core working frequency
• Dual pixel pipeline: 2 rendering pipelines with 1 texturing blocks each
• 333 megatexel/megapixel fill rate
• 350 MHz integrated RAMDAC
• 32-bit RGBA Color Rendering
• 32-bit Textures ? 2Kx2K Textures
• Up to 24-bit Z & W buffers
• 8-bit stencil buffer
• 128-bit memory interface (per VSA-100)
• Each VSA-100 chip supports up to 4-64MB local graphics SDRAM/SGRAM
• PCI 2.2 and AGP 2x/4x with SBA and DME
• Support for all major APIs including Glide?, DirectX?, and OpenGL?
• Full scene anti-aliasing in hardware
• Single-pass, single cycle tri-linear filtering
• Single-pass, single-cycle multitexturing
• Single-pass, single-cycle bump mapping
• Per pixel mip-mapping and alpha-blending
• 8-bit palletized textures with full bilinear filtering
• Table and pixel fog
• Full hardware setup of triangles parameters
• Supports multi-triangle strips and fans
• DXTC, FXT1 and Narrow Channel texture compression
• Dynamic environmental texturing
• All DirectX 7 and OGL 1.2 texture blends

3DFX`s Voodoo 4/5 product line is based on the VSA-100 scaleable chip architecture. The chip could be scaled to dual, quad or even up to a 32-processor setup for more performance. Having 32 processors does sound a little absurd & too costly but technically it is achievable. Hence the price difference we see in the Voodoo4 5000(single processor), Voodoo5 5500(Dual processor) and the Voodoo5 6000(Quad processor’s). We’ll be taking a closer look at the Voodoo5 5500 which sports Dual processors giving it a combined total of 64 MB’s of 166MHz SDRAM.