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3dfx Voodoo 5 Review

Posted by Hemos on from the bleedin'-fast dept.

gnewt writes "The guys at The Tech Report have put together a pretty comprehensive review of 3dfx's V5 5500 AGP. There's a comparison against several NVIDIA products, including the GeForce2, on image quality, FSAA, performance, and mip mapping. Overall, a nice introduction to modern 3D accelerators."

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  1. Re:Yes... by nakaduct · · Score: 4
    Above an average of about 40FPS, nobody notices anymore - they can't!

    As others have mentioned, the top end is probably closer to 60fps than 40.

    More important, though, is the headroom you get with a faster card. A game like Q3 has a standard deviation of about 7fps, which means over 15% of your frames are under 33fps, and about 3% are under 26fps. These are very noticeable slowdowns.

    At 80fps mean, your standard deviation may jump to 14 fps (it's not a linear progression in real life, but for argument's sake...), 97% of your frames are at 52fps+, and 99.85% above 38fps. So it's smooth all the time, not just when you're standing around with nothing happening.

    And that's why NVidia is still in business.

    cheers,
    mike