Voodoo3 On-line User's Guide - Hardware Specifications

Hardware Specifications

Specifications	Voodoo3
	3000 AGP	2000 AGP	2000 PCI
Board Dimensions	6.5" L x 3.25" H	6.5" L x 3.25" H	6.5" L x 4.25" H
Optional TV Output	Available	Not supported
Memory Speed	166 MHz	143 MHz
RAM-DAC Speed	350 MHz	300 MHz
Performance	166 Million Pixels/sec.	143 Million Pixels/sec.
Peak Bandwidth	2.66 GB/sec.	2.29 GB/sec.
Peak Processing	7 Million Polygons/sec.	6 Million Polygons/sec.
Peak Fill Rate	333 Million Texels/sec.	286 Million Texels/sec.
Minimum System	Pentium II or higher CPU		Pentium or higher CPU
Slot Type	AGP 1.0 compatible; supports AGP 2x		PCI 2.1 compatible
Memory Type	Synchronous-DRAM (SDRAM)
Memory Address	A000h - BFFFh + 2 linear apertures assigned by PCI
ROM BIOS Address	C000h - C7FFh
I/O Address	3B0h - 3DFh (IBM standard)
DMA	No DMA channels exist
IRQ (REQUIRED!)	One PCI-assigned interrupt is required

3D Features

The 3dfx Voodoo3 graphics accelerator chip on your Voodoo3 card delivers over 100 billion operations per second to provide optimum 2D, 3D, and video playback performance. Advanced 3D acceleration functions of the Voodoo3 chip include:

Designed for Glide 2.x and 3.x acceleration
Optimized for Direct3D acceleration
Optimized for OpenGL support
Complete DirectX 5.0 and 6.0 support
Single-pass single-cycle multi-texturing
100% hardware triangle setup
Dual 32-bit graphics pipelines
2 texture-mapped, lit pixels per clock cycle
Square and non-square texture support
24-bit or 16-bit floating-point depth-buffer
8-bit palletized texture support
Per-pixel mip-mapping
Exponential fog table

Display Modes

This table lists the display modes supported by your Voodoo3 card and the vertical refresh rates available for each display mode.

Resolution	Number of Colors	Vertical Frequency (Hz)
320x200	256, 65K	70, 85
320x240	256, 65K	60, 70, 75, 85
400x300	256, 65K	60, 70, 75, 85
512x384	256, 65K	60, 70, 75, 85
640x200	16	70
640x350	16	70
640x400	256, 65K, 16.7M	70, 85
640x480	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120, 140, 160
720x480	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 72, 85
720x576	256, 65K, 16.7M	72, 100
800x600	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120, 140, 160
920x760	256, 65K	60, 75, 85
1024x768	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 70, 75, 85, 100, 120
1152x864	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 70, 75, 85, 100, 120
1280x960	256, 65K	60, 75, 85
1280x1024	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 70, 75, 85, 100
1600x1024	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 76, 85
1600x1200	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 100
1792x1344	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 75
1856x1392	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 75
1920x1080	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 72, 75, 85
1920x1200	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 76, 85
1920x1440	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 75
Voodoo3 2000 2046x1536	256, 65K, 16.7M	60
Voodoo3 3000 2046x1536	256, 65K, 16.7M	60, 75

NOTE: All of the display modes shown are not necessarily supported by all monitors or software. Be sure to check the capabilities of your monitor and the requirements of your software before choosing a display mode or refresh rate.