V5 5500 PCI vs. AGP--performance difference? (Dave, hoping you'll answer)

[Pete]

The PCI card would give me more flexibility in placing the card, and the option of moving it to an older PC if necessary, so I'd prefer it. Also, I'm not sure how the drivers will interact in Win98, but I might still be able to use my ATi Xpert128 for DVDs...

 

[pen^2]

the differnce is minute, like 5% so with fast enuff processors (or so i heard)
i doubt anyone here could answer you better than dave could...

 

[fodd3r]

i believe the performance difference is likely significant. if you use pci you have a lot less bandwidth, not only that there is more latency especially when other devices are using the pci bus as well. as for using both vid cards it shouldn't be to big a deal.

 

[nitrousninja]

The V5 isn't a true AGP card. it's actually an AGP card that runs at PCI speed anyway. I have one and love it(AGP). These guys are right, the difference will be minimal just make sure that your case will fit the card as it is kind of long. If you get one just use DX8 and the newest 11/10/00 drivers as they give the best performance to date.

 

[vanderStoep]

voodoo 5 pci review:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1292


the benches:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1292&p=11


as you can see hardly any difference.

 

[Deeko]

I'll repeat what they said just for fun There isn't much of a difference.

 

[BFG10K]

Pete:

Since 3dfx not using AGP texturing/fastwrites and don't have T&L (no extra vertex data) there really is no difference between the two (there is a very minor difference at the very highest resolutions). The general advice is to buy the AGP version whenever you can but if it's more convenient for you, get the PCI version.

fodd3r:

i believe the performance difference is likely significant.

You believe wrongly. Why don't you just look at some benchmarks before you make such claims? Only at the highest resolutions were there very minor (unnoticeable) differences.

 

[DaveB3D]

Very little difference. Primary differnce is that the bus clock is higher in AGP, and one other thing (not sure if I can say.. so I won't. ). However the performance difference is very small between the two. Either one will work good.

 

[Maniac9127]

I've heard from others that the PCI is more stable on an overclocked bus, but I don't know if it's true or not.

 

[FreakyOCR]

sigh

 

[FreakyOCR]

I love having my PCI TNT around, I can just grab it and slap it in any computer with a PCI slot baby, new, old, who cares, it works....