Monday, November 15, 1999

Voodoo4/5 Announcement -- 9:14 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

3dfx Europe issued this press release (Update: This link no longer works. To view the press release now, click here.) regarding their forthcoming Voodoo4/5 cards based on their new VSA-100 chip. Basically the cards will have from one to 32 (!) VSA-100s per card. Here's the product run-down, edited down from the press release.

The Voodoo4 4500 will be available in both PCI and AGP versions, and will feature a single VSA-100 processor and 32 MB of graphics memory. The boards, which render two fully featured pixels per clock, will deliver between 333 and 367 megatexels/megapixels per second fill rates and are expected to be priced at $179.99*.

The Voodoo5 5000 PCI will have dual VSA-100 processors and 32 MB of total graphics memory. The Voodoo5 5000 PCI board, rendering four fully featured pixels per clock, will deliver between 667 and 733 megatexels/megapixels per second fill rates and is expected to be priced at $229.99*.

The Voodoo5 5500 AGP will feature dual VSA-100 processors and 64 MB of total graphics memory. 64 MB of memory allows for higher resolutions and pixel depths with full-scene anti-aliasing and T-Buffer effects enabled, along with more memory available for texture storage. The board, which renders four fully featured pixels per clock, will deliver between 667 and 733 megatexels/megapixels per second fill rate and is expected to be priced at $299.99*.

The flagship product of the VSA-100 architecture, the Voodoo5 6000 AGP, will feature quad VSA-100 processors and 128 MB of graphics memory. It will be the first consumer graphics product to break the one billion pixel per second fill rate barrier. The Voodoo5 6000 AGP, which renders eight fully featured pixels per clock, will deliver between 1.33 and 1.47 gigatexels/gigapixels per second fill rate. It is expected to be priced at $599.99*.

Note: the Voodoo4 will NOT have any of the T-Buffer technology (full-scene anti-aliasing, etc.). In order to get the gigapixel fill-rate they were talking about, you'll have to drop $600 NEXT MARCH! What's up with that?

Looks like these will be nice boards and probably faster than what we have now, but they aren't going to be enough to get 3dfx to leapfrog NVIDIA, IMO.

News for 11/15/1999

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