Voodoo 3 update from Fast Graphics

Hands on the Voodoo 3

Highlights from the article:

• Despite all the rumors, both chipsets will NOT support more than 16 Mb of shared memory (framebuffer and texture).
  
• When asked if owners of a Voodoo II SLI configuration have any reason to upgrade to Voodoo 3 both Tony and Nick agreed that the only real advantage is that you free up some PCI slots.
  
• In a typical system the Voodoo 3 chipset will not perform much better than a SLI Voodoo II setup.
  
• we run the timedemo DEMO1 on Quake II: On the test system, a PII 450 with 128 Mb, the Voodoo 3 3000 hopped out 110.4 fps at 640x480, while at 800x600 the performance dropped only 4 frames to 106.2 and at 1024x768 the demo system still showed a very playable 83.8 fps.
  
• Anyway, both Tony and Nick made clear that Voodoo 3 is not the big thing that the hard core gamers are waiting for. If you have a SLI config, don't get Voodoo 3 is the advice.
  
• So what's the real beef with the Voodoo 3 chipset ? Well, it's gonna be cheap. A full featured 16 Mb Voodoo 3 board will ship for less money than a single Voodoo 2 board, while it offers more than double performance, and 2D.
  

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