Voodoo 5 5500 PCI vs AGP

[thilanliyan]

Would there be a large difference between a PCI version of a Voodoo 5 5500 64mb vs the AGP version?

 

[LordGestle]

If I recall the difference in minimal to nothing. I recall 3dfx indicating that AGP was not necessary, along with hardware TL, but obviously followed what consumers wanted at the time.
Obvioulsy later cards took a big peformance hit, but I never thought the voodoo cards ever had that issue.

 

[Arkaign]

Your patron website says it better than I ever could :

http://www.anandtech.com/video...itesize=yes&i=1292&p=2

Cliffs : they should be close to identical in performance, mainly due to the fact that the AGP version didn't use AGP-only features, and functioned much like a PCI card anyway.

 

[thilanliyan]

Thank you kindly gents. Lol, I forgot AT was around at that time and neglected to check.

Is it really only in Glide games that the card was faster in? From the AT test, it seems the Geforce 2 was faster in most games.

 

[conlan]

Originally posted by: thilan29
Thank you kindly gents. Lol, I forgot AT was around at that time and neglected to check.

Is it really only in Glide games that the card was faster in? From the AT test, it seems the Geforce 2 was faster in most games.

The Gf2 was faster, especially in OpenGL games.
The V5 was better for GLide because the nVidia GLide wrapper wasn't all that great. The V5 played anything and everything and was visually superior IMHO.

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: conlan

Originally posted by: thilan29
Thank you kindly gents. Lol, I forgot AT was around at that time and neglected to check.

Is it really only in Glide games that the card was faster in? From the AT test, it seems the Geforce 2 was faster in most games.

The Gf2 was faster, especially in OpenGL games.
The V5 was better for GLide because the nVidia GLide wrapper wasn't all that great. The V5 played anything and everything and was visually superior IMHO.

thanks.

 

[daveybrat]

I know the V5 5500 PCI is worth a lot more than the AGP version due to the rarity of it. It still fetches quite a bit on ebay from what i hear.

 

[Schadenfroh]

PCI version works in modern motherboards (that have normal PCI slots), the 3.3V AGP version will fry newer AGP motherboards.