Creative Labs Geforce 32mb DDR VS. Voodoo 3000

[Johnnie]

which is better?

 

[snow patrol]

The Geforce. It's considerably faster, offers more features and supports 32bit colour.

The only thing that the Voodoo has on the Geforce is glide support, for games such as Unreal.

 

[Yoshi]

OK, I have both cards so I feel I can answer this one.

The GeForce is by far a better card for 3D performance. Lack of Glide support is not really a big deal in my opinion. I play Deus Ex which is based on the original Unreal engine and performance is acceptable once you install the DirectX patch. Performance for everything else is top notch. Games I play regularly include UT, Q3A, NHL2000, and Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed. I play them all (well except UT where I use 16bit color) at 1023x768x32 with everything cranked to the max.

I don't want you to think the V3 is a bad card, it is not. 2D image quality in my opinion is slightly better than the GeForce (using the same monitor). 3D performance will get you by but don't expect image quality and speed to be comperable to the GeForce. I don't think that lack of 32bit color is responsible for the poorer image quality. I think it relates to the V3's limited texture size support. Right now the V3 makes a fine card for my Girlfriend's machine where it handles Frogger and The Sims with ease.

Another card you may want to consider would be the GeForce2 MX. Very Similar performance to the orignial GeForce DDR and can probably be found for slightly less money.

BTW, a few system specs for reference:

Asus CUBX w/PIII 700 FCPGA
160Mb PC100
Creative Labs Annihilator Pro (GeForce DDR @ 150/350)
19" CTX monitor

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

I've been running a voodoo 3 2000 for over a year, and it has got me by on any and all games. Good card, and the 3000 is better.

I just purchased an asus geforce 2 mx and haven't played any games on it yet(going to install q3 in about 15 mins), but I can tell you that the v3 is a good card, but it is ageing, really you should just go with a geforce 2 mx card.

A good mx card is the hercules one, its ram is faster than the reference geforce 2 mx, and its faster than all its competitors.(183 as opposed to 166 i believe). I really should have went with the hercules, but I thought this one had dual monitor and tv out, apparently I read wrong as it showed up with just one monitor port on the back

If you want tv out and dual monitor, you can pick up the asus mx card for around $140, but READ CAREFULLY, Just because it says full retail doesn't mean that there aren't two versions at retail... Found this out the hard way.

The Hercules board without tv out or dual monitor is probably around $150.

 

[han888]

i would choose geforce ddr geforce mx is good too

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

nVIDIA all the way!

 

[Plester]

geforce - like the fellas said. look at it from the other side of the coin, its like comparing a V5 5500 to a TNT2 non-ultra. they come from different generations of technology. its almost inappropriate to compare the v3 3000 to a geforce DDR from a gaming perspective.

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

Right on, Plester! Not a fair match at all. . .

 

[BeHeMOTH]

The only thing I could say would be on how much do you want to spend. I have both also and stil use them, but I would use the Geforce ove the voodo and I was a Voodoo lover.