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| | (Post a comment) » Voodoo 5 AWOL at IDFLast week we reported that 3dfx would be showing off a dual chip VSA 100 board at the Intel Developer's Forum in Palm Springs, CA. We promised that our roving editor, Brandon Bell, would be on hand to witness the demonstration, but the event did not take place as planned. The explanation from 3dfx is as follows: 3dfx announced last week that they were scheduled to demo the Voodoo5 board at the "Driving Content for Modern Graphics" presentation at IDF. Due to a
miscommunication between Intel and 3dfx, this demonstration was cancelled.
In fairness to the other presenters on the panel, Intel asked 3dfx to forgo
the schedule demonstration. While 3dfx was fully prepared to do the
demonstration, we did honor this request from Intel.
The Voodoo5 was demonstrated at MacWorld Tokyo on the Macintosh platform as scheduled last week. It is also on display at Cebit in Hanover, Germany this week on both the Macintosh and PC platforms.
"3dfx was excited about having the IDF panel discussion be part of the
public debut of our new VSA-100 based Voodoo5 product," noted Scott Sellers
of 3dfx Interactive. "We had the unusual opportunity to be able to debut
our new products at three major events, almost simultaneously. Unfortunately, that debut is now limited to Mac World, in Tokyo and Cebit in Germany."
"It was strictly an issue of fairness, and allowing each panelist to
demonstrate their products would change the nature of the discussion", added
Kurt Sehnert, Strategic Marketing Manager, Desktop Products Group (DPG) for Intel."
3dfx Interactive will be showing the VSA-100 based Voodoo 4 and Voodoo5
products at the upcoming Games Developers Conference held from March 9-12 in San Jose. So there you have it - a lot of readers have emailed us wondering where Firingsquad's Voodoo 5 coverage was. It will have to wait until Voodoo 5's American debut at the upcoming GDC. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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I could beat you at any level in Tribes.
Really I can't wait to see the voodoo 5 cards. From what I have
heard using the T Buffer/FSA 800 x 600 looks better than 1024 x 800
in Q3A with no T Buffer.
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Anonymous at 10:58pm 02/28/2000
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You guys will find me drowned in a puddle of drool if the V5 can
allow me to play UT(or Q3A)with 1600X1200-32bpp at 60fps WITH
TEXTURE COMPRESSION!!! You may now drool!!
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FunkLord150 at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Ohh the Voodoo 5's are on the way, I suppose I should get a G400 MAX
now :)
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Anonymous at 01:05pm 02/24/2000
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Yeah, the new ISA video chip they are reverting to is suppose to
have 64-bit color, 1 gig memory, and sell for $99.00 at your Local
Walmart soon! Anyone seen the Windows 2001 beta around?
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Anonymous at 12:24pm 02/24/2000
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Can't wait for V5, don't know about you guys but I’d rather play
games than frickin' treemark. Having a decelerator GPU doesn't help
either. The VSA is based upon the voodoo architecture but what do
you think the Gayforce is based upon, yes that’s right it uses the
same TMU found in the riva 128. No Company but SGI has been
innovative, face it. Who cares anyway? I just want to play Quake 3
engine/ UT engine games at
1600*1200*32bpp*60fps, and THAT'S good enough for me.
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vkfx at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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I have to say that the VSA-100 willd efinetly be the most coolest
chip. The people who love NVidia will just sit back and see 3dfxr's
kick real nice booty. I would say that NV 15 when it comes out will
be cool but guys I mean runng a VSA board compared to a NV15 will be
ant and a elephant thing. Keep on waitin.
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Chua at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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S3 is the Cheaperst, and the rest are too expensive. So, I expect
the S3 to do some things about the Savage 2000+, and resolving the
Driver Instability Issues. :)
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chewie371 at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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That kind of funny, first of all, you have no idea what the
architecture is, or how it works, they havent released anything as
to the architecture just stuff abou the T-Buffer, and you say its
aging. Bitboys has been working on their card for how long now?
several years, but thats not an aging architecture. Plus, I heard
the NV15 was just based of the Geforce architecture just with higher
clockspeeds and minor changes(this is just something I read
somewhere on these boards. may or may not be true) VSA-100 may not
be the be all and end all of graphics card like 3dfx claims it to
be, but it wont be shoddy and second rate either. Give 3dfx a
chance, the Voodoo 1 was the first mainstream card to make it. The
Voodoo2 was the be all and end all of its time, and the Voodoo3,
though many people dont like it, was still the best selling card for
many months(yes better than TNT2). You guys arent giving enough
credit to 3dfx. How about rather than slamming a company for a
chip, noone has seen, and noone has any ideas how fast it truly is,
we just stick to what we know.
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VoodooV at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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To 3dfx's credit..the V5 WILL probably be the hottest card when it
gets released...but please, VSA-100 is an aging architecture and
nVidia is what? 3-4 months away (or less) from releasing their
cutting edge NV15/20 and i have no doubt that they will trounce
anything in sight.
So 3dfx might get to be king..but not for long...and with a 500-600
dollar price tag, being king for a month or two is not worth that
price.
Besides, power outlet real estate is tight enough as it is. I dont
want to have to find another socket to plug that additional power
supply for the V5-6000. Man that baby is going to be HOT!
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GanK at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Does anyone know what Nvidia is working on and when it will be out?
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