3Dfx voodoo 4 4500: 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 AGP Specs

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IndexThe ContendersThe 3dfx Voodoo4 4500The ATI Radeon SDRThe ATI Radeon ContinuedThe NVIDIA GeForce2 MXThe NVIDIA GeForce2 MX ContinuedThe TestQuake III Arena PerformanceMDK2 PerformanceUnreal Tournament Performance16-bit vs 32-bit PerformanceCPU Scaling PerformanceWindows 2000 Driver PerformanceConclusion

The 3dfx Voodoo4 4500

Arriving a nearly 6 full
months behind its faster performing Voodoo5 5500 brother, 3dfx’s Voodoo4 4500
was quite delayed. Powered by a VSA-100 chip, 32MB of SDR memory, and a 128-bit
memory pipeline, the Voodoo4 4500 set its sights on the sub $150 video card
market.

Unlike the one other card
you will see in this comparison, the Voodoo4 4500’s VSA-100 processor is completely
unmodified from the version found on the more expensive Voodoo5 5500. Instead
of modifying the core, 3dfx choose to make the Voodoo4 4500 a single processor
counterpart to its dual processor Voodoo5 5500 brother. Therefore, unlike the
5500’s dual chip configuration, the Voodoo4 4500 only comes in a single VSA-100
package.

Since the power of the Voodoo4
4500 hinges on the power of a single VSA-100 chip, it was important that a single
unmodified version of the chip be powerful enough to handle the other chips
in this price range, a feat quite difficult considering that the VSA-100 was
produced to be used in an SLI type setup, as can be determined by its name:
VSA stands for «Voodoo Scalable Architecture.»

Just how much power does
each VSA-100 chip have? Based on an enhanced 0.25 micron process, the VSA-100
chip features two rendering pipelines, each capable of processing one texel
per clock. The chip supports T-Buffer effects, full screen antialaising, and
FX1/DXTC texture compression. This power is contained in a package of 14 million
transistors housed on a 6-layer metal process. Perhaps the most crucial change
for the VSA-100 chip over its Voodoo3 older brother is the fact that the chip
now supports 32-bit color rendering, 32-bit textures, 32/24-bit Z & W, an
8-bit stencil buffer, and support for 2048×2048 textures. The core is clocked
at a conservative 166MHz, most likely as a result of the VSA-100’s large 0.25
micron process. The 166MHz core clock translates into a dual textured fill rate
of 166 megapixels per second or 333 megatexels per second. And while the VSA-100
chip is able to support anywhere from 4MB to 64MB, each Voodoo4 4500 comes outfitted
with 32MB of memory.

As we briefly discussed
above, the memory bus in a video card plays a crucial role. As with nearly all
other cards found in the sub $150 price range, the Voodoo4 4500 has a 128-bit
memory bus that is dependent on 32MB of SDR SDRAM chips. The chips are clocked
at 166MHz, providing 2.7 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Although the raw specs of
the Voodoo4 4500 are dwarfed in comparison to some of the other value cards
out there, some features of the VSA-100 chip make it special. You have probably
heard of all the features 3dfx has been promoting with this chip: excellent
full screen antialasing, DXTC texture compression, T-Buffer effect, the works.
It is here that we see the cutting edge of 3dfx’s budget chip, proving once
again that just because a processor is inexpensive does not mean it has to be
short on features.

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For more information regarding
both the VSA-100 chip as well as the Voodoo4 4500 as a whole, please see our
3dfx Voodoo4 4500
AGP review.

The Contenders
The ATI Radeon SDR
IndexThe ContendersThe 3dfx Voodoo4 4500The ATI Radeon SDRThe ATI Radeon ContinuedThe NVIDIA GeForce2 MXThe NVIDIA GeForce2 MX ContinuedThe TestQuake III Arena PerformanceMDK2 PerformanceUnreal Tournament Performance16-bit vs 32-bit PerformanceCPU Scaling PerformanceWindows 2000 Driver PerformanceConclusion

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Voodoo 4 Voodoo 4 — 4500  Zkladn info:  ohlena:  konec 1999  vydna:  z 2000  prac. nzev  Napalm  jdro:  166 MHz  0,25 m TSMC  14 MTranzistors  pamti:  166 MHz  16-32 MB  128 bit  trianglerate  ~10 MT / s  fillrate  333 MPxl / s  333 MTxl / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz     Podrobn informace o procesoru VSA-100, na nm je karta postavena, najdete zde.     Voodoo 4 byla bohuel posledn kartou, kterou 3Dfx stihla vydat. Vyla a po Voodoo 5 a byla situovna do oblasti mainstreamu/low-endu (ohlena byla s V5, ale do obchod se dostala a pozdji). Nebyla pli spn, protoe jednak vyla pli pozd a jej pomr cena / vkon nebyl ideln. Nabzela ale vynikajc obraz a kvalitn technologie. Protoe byla zaloena na ipu VSA-100, pinela ve, co Voodoo 5, krom efekt T-Bufferu (rychlost jednoho ipu by nebyla dostaujc) a AntiAliasing byl omezen na 2x. Pokud hledte informace o  Voodoo 4 — 4200, najdete je na strnce projektu Daytona.     Voodoo 4 je ale jednoznan vkonnj, ne karty typu nVidia RIVA TNT2 nebo Matrox G400. Dnes je Voodoo 4 pomrn vzcn; je dokonce mn rozen ne Voodoo 5-5500. Technologie: 2D / Video:   128 bit grafick jdro   HW akcelerace pehrvn DVD (Planar to packed pixel conversion)   2048*1536 pi 85 Hz jako maximln 2D rozlien 3D:   full 32 bit rendering   32 bit color textures suport   24 bit FP Z-Buffer   8 bit Stencill Buffer   Textures Resolution up-to 2048×2048   Texture Compression DXT(1-5), FXT1, S3TC   Single-Pass Bilinear / Trilinear texture filtering   Single-Pass & Single Cycle MultiTexturing   Single-Pass & Single Cycle Bump Mapping   Alpha Blending   Line / Edge AntiAliasing   Flat / Gourard Shading   LOD MipMapping   Double Buffering   Advanced Triangle Setup Engine   Sub-Pixel & Sub-Texel Correction   Programmable Fog Effects   Edge AntiAliasing   Full Scene AntiAliasing — Rotated Grid SuperSampling 2x (default)   Programmable sample location (RG, OG. ..)   TAA possible Monosti / parametry:   AGP-4 (full Sideband support) / PCI   16 / 32 MB SDR (teor. a 64 MB)   SLI kompatibiln (Voodoo 4 se ale vyrbla jen jednoipov) API, rendering:   MS Direct 3D up-to 6.0 + new features   3Dfx Glide up-to 3.0   SGI OpenGL Voodoo 4 — 4000  jdro  166 MHz  pamti  166MHz  16 MB SDRAM  trianglerate  ~ 10 MT / s  fillrate  333 MTexel / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz  sbrnice  AGP 4  vstupy  D-Sub Voodoo 4 — 4000 mla bt nejslab kartou s VSA-100. Oficiln vydna nebyla, take je velice mlo rozen. Obsahovala 16 MB pamti a (stejn jako vechny karty ze srie Voodoo 4) podporovala AGP4. Voodoo 4 — 4500  jdro  166 MHz  pamti  166 MHz  6 ns  32 MB SDRAM  trianglerate  ~ 10 MT/s  fillrate  333 MTexel / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz  sbrnice  AGP 4 / PCI  vstupy  D-Sub Voodoo 4 — 4500 krom AGP 4 podporovala i sbrnici PCI, take se dala pout i do starch pota, kter slotem AGP nedisponovaly (stejn se sice dala pout i Voodoo5 — 5500 PCI, ale tu by star systm zdaleka nedokzal vyut a do starch case se nevela. Voodoo 4 — 4500 MAC  jdro  166 MHz  pamti  166 MHz  6 ns  32 MB SDRAM  trianglerate  ~ 10 MT/s  fillrate  333 MTexel / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz  sbrnice  PCI  vstupy  D-Sub, DVI Voodoo 4 — 4500 MAC je stejn karta, jako 4500 PCI, jen s DVI navc a jinm BIOSem. Voodoo 4 — 4800 AGP  jdro  166-183 MHz  pamti  166-183 MHz  64 MB SDRAM  trianglerate  > 10 MT/s  fillrate  333-366 MTexel / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz  sbrnice  AGP 4  vstupy  D-Sub, DVI, TV Voodoo 4 — 4800 ji nevyla. Od verze 4500 se mla liit pedevm vstupem TV-out a DVI. Karta vychz ze stejnho PCB, jako V4-4500; to je ale pln osazeno (64MB, TV-out, DVI). Voodoo 4 — 4800 PCI  jdro  166-183 MHz  pamti  166-183 MHz  32 MB SDRAM  trianglerate  ~ 10 MT/s  fillrate  333-366 MTexel / s  RAMDAC  350 MHz  sbrnice  AGP 4 / PCI  vstupy  D-Sub, DVI, TV Voodoo 4 — 4800 PCI by pravdpodobn disponovala 32MB, jde v podstat o V4MAC s osazenm TV-out.  Vrobci  3Dfx  Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4  PCI  PowerColor  The Evil King 4  AGP4, TV-out  Voodoo 4 — 4500 (CV350)  AGP 4  Evate  Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4  Chance  Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4  Meditech  Crash Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4  NIX (*)  Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4  Speed  Voodoo 4 — 4500  AGP 4 (*) … kartu vyrbl PowerColor Nvod na vrobu Voodoo 4 «L» z PowerColor EvilKing IV. 1) vezmte funkn Voodoo 4 — PowerColor EvilKing IV 2) odstrate vyznaenou st 3) Vznikne «L» verze; pejetm pes obrzek mete porovnat s originn «L» Web no-X-files /ani jeho autor/ nenese zodpovdnost za vsledky tohoto postupu, ani za mon kody zpsoben hardwarem vytvoenm dle nvodu; realizace popsanho postupu je na vlastn nebezpe! Obrzky: prototypy, prezentan karty a nevydan modely Voodoo 4 — 4000 AGP. Oficiln nevyla; velice vzcn karta. (220*145, 8kB) Tohle je reklamn obrzek na Voodoo 4 — 4500. Protoe v dob prezentace jet nebyla Voodoo 4 vyrobena, pouila 3Dfx star Voodoo 3 — 3500, jej jdro pelepila npisem VSA — 100.(738*527, 105kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 PCI «beta-board» (579*410, 130kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 PCI «beta-board» s chladiem (tento kousek je soust sbrky prodan 9.2.2004 na ebay za 2550$) (320*240, 22kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 PCI «beta-board» s chladiem (jin obrzek) (320*240, 19kB) Voodoo 4 — 4800. AGP4, TV-out (Conexant), DVI. Nebyla vydna. detail 1 detail 2 (640*480, 100kB) Voodoo 4 — 4800. PCI, TV-out (Conexant), DVI (nebyla vydna) detail (800*600, 72kB) Verze BIOSu 1.11 jet kartu oznaovala jako Voodoo 4 — 4500 TV/LCD (400*300, 21kB) BIOS verze 1.18 ji korektn kartu oznaoval jako Voodoo 4 — 4800 (400*300, 11kB) built by 3Dfx Voodoo 4 — 4500 retail CD CD (jin); (380*380, 30kB) (335*300, 19kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 AGP (AGP 1,5V, 32MB 6ns Toshiba) retail pack; (1280*960, 345kB) (1076*729, 189kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 PCI (32MB 6ns Toshiba) hi-res front;(2048*1536, 804kB) hi-res back;(2048*1536, 825kB) retail; (1280*960, 287kB) (1024*768, 103kB) Voodoo 4 — 4500 MAC. (PCI, DVI, bez TV-out) hi-res front (1280*960, 178kB) hi-res back (1280*960, 178kB) MAC tools (637*315, 9kB) (640*480, 51kB) built by 3Dfx — «Made in China» Voodoo 4 — 4500 «Made in China» (32MB, Toshiba 6ns) back, (1100*770, 160kB) EvilKing IV (Made in Taiwan) vs. 3Dfx Voodoo 4 «Made in China», (774*924, 194kB) (1100*754, 203kB) PowerColor PowerColor — Voodoo 4 — 4500 «L» OEM (32MB, 6ns, Samsung) (400*280, 31kB) PowerColor — EvilKing 4 (Voodoo 4 — 4500 32MB) — non-TV-out model byl dostupn jen velmi krtce, nahrazen «L» verz box (front) (640*480, 60kB) box (back) (640*480, 54kB) (640*480, 55kB) PowerColor — EvilKing 4 TV-out (Voodoo 4 — 4500 32MB TV-out) — jedin oficiln vydan V4 s TV-out retail, (1280*960, 263kB) jin verze krabice, (200*139, 12kB) 686*408, 41kB) powered by 3Dfx — others Chance — Voodoo 4 — 4500 http://www. chance-i.co.kr/voodoo4k.htm (160*125, 7kB) Evate — Voodoo 4 — 4500 (w logo) (685*509, 184kB) Evate — Voodoo 4 — 4500 (w/o logo) (6ns Samsung) cooler, (1000*750, 63kB) jin snmek, (800*600, 375kB) (800*535, 374kB) JaceTech — Voodoo 4 — 4500 (www.jace.co.kr) jin snmek; (1000*750, 70kB) 6ns Hyundai; (800*477, 267kB) (800*507, 332kB) Meditech — Crash Voodoo 4 — 4500 Obdoba «Chance», ale s modrm chladiem (300*374, 21kB) jin snmek CD manul retail (550*506, 31kB) core & RAM (300*165, 17kb) NIX — Voodoo 4 — 4500. AGP4. Kartu vyrbl PowerColor (236*165, 15kB) Speed — Voodoo 4 — 4500. AGP4 PCB toton s PowerColor The EvilKing IV. Jen bez TV-out. (385*272, 16kB) Neznm Voodoo 4 — 4500 (fake? / Axle?) (1600*1200, 370kB) Voodoo4 — 4500 AGP Voodoo4 — 4500 PCI Voodoo4 — 4500 PCI (MAC) © no-X 2004-2005 akt. 16-03-2005 hlavn strnka diskusn frum

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3DNews Video cards General information 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 AGP The most interesting news ⇣ Contents Author: Alexander Kokh Voodoo4 — the junior model of the 3dfx product line based on the VSA-100 chip — is positioned by the manufacturer as a card intended for budget systems, the owners of which do not can afford to buy a Voodoo5 5500. The price of the card (~$140) is slightly higher than the GeForce 256, GeForce 2 MX and comparable to GeForce 256 DDR. Can Voodoo4 compete theoretically and practically? nVidia products from a similar price category? In the future, we will try answer this question. VSA-100 specifications: General parameters: chip frequency 166MHz 2 render pipelines with 1 texture unit each fill rate 166/333 megapixels bi/monotexturing, 333/166 megatexels bi/monotexturing 0.25 µm process AGP 2x/4x with fast writes without DIME 128 bit memory bus memory frequency 166MHz throughput ~2.7 Gb/s addresses up to 32Mb 3D: 2x FSAA rendering in 32-bit color 24 bit Z-Buffer 8 bit Stencil-Buffer (pattern buffer) support for textures up to 2048×2048 DXTC texture compression support (DirectX only) and FXT1 2D: 128 bit 2D core integrated RAMDAC 350MHz maximum resolution 2048×1536 in 32-bit color at 75Hz The 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 card is based on a single VSA-100 chip operating at 166MHz. Like much earlier Voodoo3, VSA-100 chip manufactured using 0.25 µm six-layer process technology and contains 14 million transistors. VSA-100 can output per clock either a pixel with 2 textures on it, or 2 pixels with one texture on each. So Thus, the fill rate is 166 megapixels / 333 megatexels in bitexturing and 333 megapixels/333 megatexels in monotexturing mode. In comparison, the GeForce 2 MX has a texturing speed of 350 megapixels/700 megapixels and the old GeForce 256 240 megapixels / 480 megatexels in the mode bitexturing, 480 megapixels/480 megatexels in monotexturing mode. But you should not focus on these theoretical values, the main contribution to performance is contributed by the memory subsystem and accelerator architecture. Voodoo4 4500 claims 2.7 Gb/s bandwidth, comparable to Radeon SDR or GeForce 2 MX. There are no DVI and TV outputs on the board. Voodoo4 does not support Twin View and similar technologies. Let’s compare the parameters of this chip with Voodoo3 3000: Criterion 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 nVidia GeForce 2 MX ATi Radeon SDR Number of memory 32Mb SDR 16 Mb SDR/SGR 32Mb 64bit DDR 32Mb SDR Memory frequency 166 Mhz 166 Mhz 200 Mhz 183 Mhz chip frequency 166Mhz 166 Mhz 175 Mhz 183 Mhz Filling speed 166/333 166/333 350/700 366/1098 (732) AGP DIME support no no yes yes Large texture support yes no yes yes truecolor support yes no yes yes Process used 0. 25 0.25 0.18 0.18 As you can see, the evolution over Voodoo3 3000 in its pure form is small. Have an opportunity work with large textures, support for AGP4x, truecolor. The frequency is low by today’s standards — only 166 Mhz, which is not surprising with a 0.25 micron process. By DIME (AGP texturing) is still not supported. It can’t be called a serious disadvantage, but in the yard the end of 2000, the first accelerators with DIME appeared already a few years ago. 3dfx is positioning the Voodoo4 4500 in the budget PC market. There are three varieties — Voodoo 4 4500 AGP, PCI and PCI for Mac: The card supports FSAA, but due to low overall performance, this is relevant only at the lowest resolutions. And Voodoo4 is also reluctant to overclock. The maximum frequency that has been reached is 174Mhz. Game speed boost amounted to no more than 6%. ATi cards were used for performance comparison Radeon 32Mb SDR, nVidia GeForce 2 MX 32Mb SDR and two testbeds with the following configuration: Testing Bench 1: Processor: Intel Celeron 700MHz Motherboard: ASUS CUSL2 (i815e) Memory: 128 MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM Hard drive: 30GB Seagate Barracuda ATA2 7200 RPM (ATA66) Sound: SB Live CD/DVD: Toshiba CD-M1402 OS: Windows 98SE Stand 2: Processor: AMD Duron 700 MHz Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7ZX Memory: 128 MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM Hard drive: 30 GB Seagate Barracuda ATA2 7200 RPM (ATA66) Sound: SB Live CD/DVD: Toshiba CD-M1402 OS: Windows 98SE Tested on Windows 98 SE with DirectX 7. 0A, v-sync turned off. OpenGL performance With normal detail, the Voodoo4 lags behind nVidia and ATi cards at all resolutions. And than the more powerful the processor, the greater the gap in all resolutions. As regards the general performance, then the most comfortable with this detailing can be consider a resolution no higher than 1024×768. And here is the test with maximum quality: The Voodoo4 results remained the same — the lowest result in all resolutions. The bar for playable resolution has also been lowered. The maximum that this card will draw with comfortable speed — 800×600. Average 39 FPS — very poor performance. One gets the feeling that the card should be compared not with its contemporaries, but with Voodoo3 and TNT2 Ultra. MDK2 Another good OpenGL test. We used settings with 32-bit color and enabled hardware T&L. All game options were set to the maximum. The result has not changed. And at 1600×1200 the performance of Voodoo4 is amazingly low — less than 6 FPS, it’s more like a slideshow. It looks like Voodoo4 4500 is limited to resolutions no higher than 800×600. For what Do you need a $140 card that can hardly be called cheap if it’s impossible to play above 800×600? Direct3D performance Revolt game was used for tests in Direct3D. You can’t call it new, but with that crisis Direct3D benchmarks, this is at least some alternative to Unreal and Unreal Tournament. In both 16-bit and 32-bit color, the Voodoo4 is well behind the GeForce 2 MX. Pleases only that that older games can be played at 50 FPS at 1280×1024. But only in 16-bit color. Using Trucolor instantly flexes the board up to 30 FPS. 3D WinBench 2000 3D WinBench 2000 synthetic test uses several game-like demos to demonstrate performance in DirectX 7. It cannot be considered a real gaming benchmark. Radeon and GeForce 2 MX results are similar, while Voodoo4 is almost 1. 5 times slower. Can reduce the resolution, then the difference will not be so noticeable. But why pay more if is it possible to get comparable speed from cheaper boards? Conclusions: We can definitely say that Voodoo4 cannot compete in speed with GeForce2 MX and ATi Radeon. In all tests, both in OpenGL and Direct3D, the 3dfx card is inferior to its competitors. The only reason to buy the Voodoo4 is the Glide. But the latest representatives of games for this API are they will perfectly go on the old Voodoo3, the price of which is significantly lower, and performance on par with Voodoo4. For the money that 3dfx wants for their card, you can get a much better board from nVidia or ATi, with T&L, bigger textures, and tweaked drivers. The quality of FSAA in Voodoo4 is mediocre, and the speed drops noticeably when using it. This feature is not for budget PCs. The maximum that would be worth paying for V4 4500 is $80-90, but not $140. Support for truecolor and large textures is no excuse. She also has cards released last year. It would have been better if 3dfx hadn’t released the V4 4500 to the PC market at all. The card does not justify its price. ⇣ Contents If you notice an error, select it with the mouse and press CTRL+ENTER. Related materials Permanent URL: https://3dnews.ru/173243/page-1.html ⇣ Comments

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«Last» map from 3dfx. The card is in good condition, where I reached it, I cleaned it from dust and streaks, but I could service the fans, I didn’t do it, it won’t work out neatly + the “resurrection” effect is always different. An ad to create demand that is «stupidly not there.» Checked in 3DMark, of course, this time I used 2000. My stand for testing AGP 2X equipment is not the best, Celeron 300A, 128 MB of memory, but the GA-6BXC board (I had a lot of business with it, including selling two of three of its variations), reliable BX. Avito Delivery is connected.

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