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?

Do you use FSAA?

V5 is faster.

yeah its almost twice as fast as a V4

But dosnt the voodoo4 have the same chip as on the voodoo5?

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)

wrote on 28.02.06 at 23:41:42:

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.

just a quick example, found by google:

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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

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/bench.htm