3dfx Velocity 100

by Mike Andrawes on October 29, 1999 7:50 PM EST

Specifications

  • Integrated 128-Bit 2D, 3D and video accelerator
  • 8MB high-speed SGRAM memory
  • AGP 2X - No AGP Texturing
  • Single Pass, SingleCycle Multi-Texturing
  • 300 MHz RAMDAC
  • 2D Resolutions as high as 2046x1536
  • 3D Resolutions as high as 1600x1200
  • DVD Hardware Assist
  • AMD 3D NOW! and Pentium SSE Optimizations
  • Legacy Support for Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51 and OS/
  • 128-bit 2D Accelerator
  • 300 MHz RAMDAC for flicker free display
  • 2D Resolutions of up to 2046x1536
  • Microsoft WHQL Certified
  • Optimized Direct 3D accleration
  • Optimized OpenGL Support
  • Designed for Glide 3.0 acceleration
  • Complete DirectX 5.0 and DirectX 6.0 support
  • 100% hardware triangle setup
  • 32-bit internal graphics pipline
  • 2 texture-mapped, lit pixels per clock
  • Single pass multi-texturing support (DirectX 6.0 and OpenGL)
  • Square and non-square texture support
  • TextureBlend support
  • Point-Sampled, Bilinear, Trilinear Mip-mapping
  • Multi-texture
  • Bump Map
  • Texture modulation
  • Light maps
  • Reflection maps
  • Detail textures
  • Environment maps
  • Procedural textures
  • Per-pixel perspective-correct texture mapping
  • Fog: Exponential Fog Table
  • 16-bit floating point depth buffer
  • 8-bit palletized textures

Reading over the specs on the Velocity 100 on the 3dfx website, it sounds like the Velocity is a Voodoo3 2000 with just 8MB of RAM. Everything else seems to be complete – a full 128-bit memory bus, single pass multitexturing, AGP 2x support, and even a 300 MHz RAMDAC. Note that Voodoo3 3000/3500 products do feature a 350 MHz RAMDAC, but this only comes into play at the very highest of resolutions and will not affect most users.

It’s interesting to note that RAM is SGRAM instead of the SDRAM used on the rest of the Voodoo3 line. SGRAM is, in fact, faster and more expensive than SDRAM, but was likely chosen to maintain the 128-bit memory bus with just 8MB of memory.

Index Exploring the Velocity - Enabling the 2nd TMU
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  • KostNalu - Thursday, June 13, 2019 - link

    It was my first 3dfx card back in the day. It was a good old days back then. I miss those Glide games.

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