Agreed, I also notice, after further reading, that they did not opt to pull
any of the processing off of the CPU and onto the board. Which means that
the GeForce is, again, going to be better because the system isn't trying to
do everything from the CPU. Slower (sub 500-550mhz systems) will notice
this more than the extremely fast systems. But I would suspect that even up
at the 700-800mhz range the fact that GeForce pulls the processing itself
will give it an advantage over the 3dFX card.
Something to remember when looking at technology: Try to stay away from
"Fan sites". Voodoo Xtreme is hardly the place to go to see if a Voodoo
card is better than a NVidia just as going to www.nvidia.com isn't exactly
the best place to find out if an NVidia card is better than a Voodoo.
Tom's Hardware guide and other **Neutral** sites are the best places to go
for that kind of analysys.
> Voodoo5 does apparently support 32-bit color but it still doesn't
> support hardware T&L. Legacy DX6 games don't take advantage of hardware
> T&L, and unfortunately that list includes EQ. However most new games,
> and existing OpenGL games do benefit from the hardware T&L, putting the
> Voodoo5 at a distinct disadvantage. It hardly seems worthwhile to throw
> new money at old technology; 3dfx will find themselves not one but two
> generations behind the competition.
>
> "Kevin L. Crawford" wrote:
> >
> > Ahh!!! Cool they changed some of the specs for the production model ;)
I
> > hadn't read the latest on it (Not a Voodoo fan). Glad to see they went
> > main-stream ;)
> >
> > Sorry I was wrong. But I still think the GeForce outperforms it. I'll
have
> > to visit some of the sites that do benchmarks and see if they have any
> > comparisons up yet.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sikes, Jonathan (CRTATL)" <jonathan.sikes@...>
> > To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:36 PM
> > Subject: RE: Tech Advice - WAS [eqbards] New messages (Getting WAY off
to
> > pic)
> >
> > > Hate to burst your bubble but the Voodoo 5 will support/does support
> > 32-bit
> > > color.
> > >
> > > Links:
> > > http://www.voodooextreme.com/articles/v5/v5article.html
> > >
> > > http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/V5Incarnate.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gwion Penderwydd
> > > Bored Level 48 bard
> > > Quellious
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kevin L. Crawford [mailto:Lyrnia@...]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:09 PM
> > > To: eqbards@egroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: Tech Advice - WAS [eqbards] New messages (Getting WAY off
> > > topic)
> > >
> > >
> > > I agreed with all but this point. It's time to put Voodoo cards to
bed.
> > > They don't support 32 bit graphics (and even the new Voodoo5 spec
isn't
> > > going to. They will run as fast but the color depth just won't be
there.
> > > In short, the folks at 3dfx need to get it in gear and quit resting on
> > their
> > > laurels... 16bit color is nice but with every new NVidia chip
supporting
> > 32
> > > bit (and soon 64 bit color I suspect) 3dfx is going to wind up getting
> > > dusted even worse than they are right now by the GeForce. If you're
> > running
> > > a Voodoo card I'd recommend, when you do upgrade, that you go to an
NVidia
> > > chipset or a Bitboys chipset.
> > >
> > > Your mileage may vary (but in this case unless something rather
> > significant
> > > happens over at 3dFX they're going to wind up hurting badly.
> > >
> > > Kev
> > > aka: Lyrnia
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