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Combatman Junior Member Offline If it works...use it Posts: 71	Question what is faster? 28.02.06 at 02:28:50 Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 which one is better? I know voodoo5 has the dual chip thing going on but it just buffers frames around the two so it is only worth a 32mb card. Voodoo 4 is a 32mbcard and one chip. Is it technically faster?
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #1 - 28.02.06 at 03:27:05 Do you use FSAA?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #2 - 28.02.06 at 05:38:48 V5 is faster.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #3 - 28.02.06 at 18:23:21 yeah its almost twice as fast as a V4
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Combatman Junior Member Offline If it works...use it Posts: 71	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #4 - 28.02.06 at 23:41:42 But dosnt the voodoo4 have the same chip as on the voodoo5?
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Reply #5 - 01.03.06 at 00:06:44

Yes, but the Voodoo5 has two VSA-100, the Voodoo4 only one.

Therefor one can select 4x FSAA (Voodoo4 only 2x FSAA) or use the almost doubled power for framerate.

Additionally, the Voodoo5 is the only card to offer T-Buffer, Motion Blur and Depth of Field effects (although I know of no game except the T-Buffer modified Quake 3 Demo that uses these effects natively)

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #6 - 01.03.06 at 02:45:56 Quote: But dosnt the voodoo4 have the same chip as on the voodoo5? It does but the Voodoo 5 splits the workload between the two chips. I can assure you the Voodoo 5 will have no problem beating a Voodoo 4 in many programs. The question was "which is faster" and the V-5500 clearly is.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #7 - 01.03.06 at 21:34:44 just a quick example, found by google: Descent 1024x768x16 Bit Voodoo 5 5500 141FPS Voodoo 4 4500 81FPS Voodoo 3 3000 72FPS (tested on Intel Pentium III 600 Mhz, 128 MB SD-Ram, Windows 98 ) http://www.pc-erfahrung.de/Index.html?3dfxVoodoo4und5.html
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Question what is faster? Reply #8 - 01.03.06 at 23:07:10 http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/bench.htm
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