3dfx Voodoo5 6000 ~ VS ~ ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

[VIAN]

The Battle

 

[BlvdKing]

uh, interesting? I thought the V5 6k would have problems on a modern AGP chipset.

 

[Schadenfroh]

am i blind or did it win in UT? was it running in glide?

 

[BFG10K]

They must've found some motherboard that supports 3.3V on its AGP.

As for UT, if they want to use the best API for each card then they should've used the latest OpenGL renderer from Epic for the Radeon and it would've smoked the Voodoo. Not to mention the fact that Glide runs under 16 bit colour.

An interesting article nevertheless; V5 6000 benchmarks are far and few between. If only the card wasn't so clunky and expensive then it would've dominated the gaming scene if it was released on time.

 

[sandorski]

Interesting, but they kinda borked the review from the outset(not that it matters much). They used a Barton 3000+ on a VIA kt333 for the Voodoo 6 and a P4 3ghz on a i875 for the Radeon 9800 Pro, they should have just used the Barton system for both video cards, since they both would have worked on it. Ah well, if 3dfx were alive today...

 

[VIAN]

Interesting, but they kinda borked the review from the outset(not that it matters much). They used a Barton 3000+ on a VIA kt333 for the Voodoo 6 and a P4 3ghz on a i875 for the Radeon 9800 Pro, they should have just used the Barton system for both video cards, since they both would have worked on it. Ah well, if 3dfx were alive today...

I wondered about that too. It's sort of BS from the start. Not only is the P4 an extra 60 MHz along with the other 800 or so. But the Bus is also working faster. It's an unfair advantage towards the V5.

 

[blazer78]

lol, put some slack off the v5 6k, the rad 9800 is a current high end card, a couple years newer than the v5 6k.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: blazer78
lol, put some slack off the v5 6k, the rad 9800 is a current high end card, a couple years newer than the v5 6k.

 

[edmundoab]

nice review, knowing that the card was a real monster back in those days

And still living at its strong points
I don't have the final revision card though
nevertheless still catches my attention

 

[Lonyo]

11.7GB/s memory bandwidth for V5 6000. Not actually true. 166MHz SDRAM and a 128-bit mem bus would never yield that.

 

[VIAN]

11.7 is close enough.

4 chips remember. It's actually 10.6GBps.

What's cool is that all those chips together will give you an architecture like the Geforce4 - 4x2 and 10.6GBps.

Fillrate is lacking however because of the speed of the thing, but still pretty cool.

664MPps Pixel Fillrate and 1.3GTps Texel Fillrate.

I heard it might be able to be overclocked to 183 per chip as a max.

732MPps Pixel Fillrate and 1.5GTps Texel Fillrate.

At stock speed, the V5 6000 has about half the fillrate of the GF4.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

i love the attempts to translate this article.....the spelling is ok....but the order is so far back to front that it almost makes sense