NEWS • SEPTEMBER 13 , 2000
3dfx Promises Voodoo5 Mac AGP Card by October
Preorder program coming soon

by David Nagel
Executive Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com

3dfx Interactive today announced that its 64 MB Voodoo5 5500 AGP graphics card for Macintosh will be available for purchase in October.

Voodoo5 5500 AGP for Macintosh uses two VSA-100 graphics processing chips running in parallel by coupling them in a Scan Line Interleave mode configuration and performing 3D acceleration from both chips simultaneously. The result is a doubling of overall 3D performance. Voodoo5 5500 also features the companyÕs T-Buffer digital cinematic effects engine. The 350 MHz RAMDAC supports resolutions of up to 2,048 x 1,536. Other features include:

• 667 megapixels per second fill rate
• Real-time, full-scene hardware anti-aliasing
• 8-bit palletized textures
• 32-bit rendering
• 32-bit textures
• 24-bit floating point depth buffer (Z or W)
• 8-bit stencil buffer.

It will also include SVGA and DVI outputs. The card supports QuickDraw 3D, Glide and OpenGL and offers acceleration for QuickTime. A preorder program will be available soon, according to 3dfx. For more information, visit http://www.3dfx.com.

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