Thank you very much for testing this two cards together. In my opinion better choice will be Voodoo 4 4500 for retro PC. For T&L games better usually use today better card and Glide support can be great.
Terrific comparison! Sad to see the beginning of the end for 3dfx showcased but they were at least somewhat competitive with that built up glide support. Great video, very well made!
I would say that the beginning of the end for 3dfx came with the release of the V5 5500 in may 2000 and that the V4 4500 released at 179 $ while the GF 2 MX was 30-50 $ cheaper finished 3dfx off.
Excellent video. I couldnt wait too see your opinion and results about those cards. Usually the GF 2 MX was faster in OpenGL games and the V4 4500 in Glide games. Sadly most magazines and sites in the year 2000 tested the cards with just Quake 3, 3dmark 2000 and maybe one more game, drowing a conclusion based on just 2-3 games. The problem for 3dfx was the price, the V4 4500 being 30-50 $ more expensive than a GF 2 MX when released and also the support for just DirectX6 while the Geforce had DirectX 7 support. Its also weird that 3dfx never released a 183 mhz version of the V4 & 5 to better compete with the Geforce 1 & 2 series, considering that most V4 & 5 overclock to over 183 mhz with 6ns memory and that 3dfx a year earlier in mid-1999 released the V3 3500 with 183 mhz and 5.5 ns memory.
Thanks! I'm glad I could finally share it with you. I think that with the mini GL the voodoo is competitive, but otherwise it is slower. And I agree, 3dfx charged a bit much for the voodoo 4, but remember, it had and extra feature, glide. So it could be worth it. Thanks for watching once again, great having you. 👍
10:00 Serius Sam. The problem with the 2x Antialiasing in with the Voodoo 4, which drops the FPS to unplayable is the fact that Voodoo 4 has only 32MB ram. Because of the 2x anti-aliasing the card has to keep 2 frame buffers only for anti aliassing (a frame buffer is 1024*768*4byte = 3MB, and we need at least 4 from them, because of the triple buffering, and a depth buffer. Total it makes 3*4=12MB. With anti aliasing we double the one buffer, which makes it 16MB. The textures are eating a lot of memory as well. To render a picture, always new textures needed depending where the player located. And that's why less memory means the textures has to be swapped more frequently from the system RAM. Because you are using a PCI version of the card, which has only 33MHz Speed on 32bit, you can make the math, how slow is the data transmission rate from CPU to Voodoo. The 2x AGP card, is 4 times faster as PCI.
@@SUCRA You know it! Coming from an S3 ViRGE, the Voodoo 3 + Glide was like... 🤩😍 I really hope for an Unreal remaster with Unreal Engine 5 or a proper sequel someday.
just sucra and his buddy voodoo just hanging out at the cafe ! lmao great stuff. keep it up! edit: in 3dmark99 did you leave vsync on? it's suspiciously hitting 75 fps quite consistently on the GF2MX :p
I have been inspired by your channel and I have also collected some old retro pc parts that are Windows 98 compatible. However I m unable to make videos on 3dfx voodoo cards as I never had those cards. Will try to find some.
Hey, that sounds great! I'll subscribe so I'll be there for your first video. Don't bust yourself up about not having voodoo cards, I bought mine throughout the years and most before the price hike. There are other video cards that can be used. Good luck! 👍
Nice video, I'd like to note a couple of things: a) The chipset on the motherboard you are using is the Intel i865GV which omits a true AGP slot. Instead, motherboard vendors were allowed to implement their own crude versions of AGP, such as the MSI AGR slot on this board. As such, performance (and compatibility) suffers greatly on period correct hardware and probably on the GF2 MX as well. The Voodoo4's performance is likely untouched as the VSA100 does not make use of any AGP features, it just treats AGP as a fast PCI slot. I had to find that out the hard way myself when using an Asrock P4i65GV which uses the proprietary Asrock AGI slot and had random crashes and utterly subpar performance on a 6600GT years ago. Switching to a P4i65G fixed all this! So there's definitely more performance to be extracted out of the MX here. b) Something to keep in mind that this comparison does not take into account is that this 3GHz Pentium 4 is much faster than the average CPUs of the era, especially those found in the systems of the budget minded folks that bought these cards. HW T&L on GF2MX greatly uplifts performance by removing CPU overhead on those slower CPUs. On faster CPUs, such as this Pentium 4, it's likely that the CPU can bruteforce its way and come out faster than the GF2MX's HW T&L, so you may be witnessing the inverse effect of a real world scenario so to speak!
Hey! Thanks for your comment, all valid inputs. I have a few videos with period accurate hardware, it's usually my way to go. On this one I wanted to go as fast as possible with the CPU.
Good stuff! Makes me feel better having gone with 3DFX back then as well (Voodoo 3 first, then a Voodoo 5). Wish I could get another one for one of my retro PCs, but man those prices on 3DFX cards..
Hey, thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, unfortunately the prices aren't very palatable these days, but sometimes they come up in the local markets or discarded PCs. I hope you can find one.
I saw your copy of Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3 sitting there, I still have the disc version of that game and still play it from time to time, it's a masterpiece. Great video, it was a good comparison.
Hey, thanks! I haven't played that one yet, I plan to eventually take a look at it. Thanks for watching, I'm glad you liked it. This comparison was a long time coming, people kept asking for it after the first edition of GPU June when I compared the V4 to the V5.
Holy Mother of God! I've been searching for this game (Expendable) for years! I couldn't find it. Only thing I known was how it looks and now finally I've got it! Thanks :D
A very in-depth comparison! I've never seen these two compared and I have no experience of the Voodoo 4 so I learned a lot. I really like the directing style you use, Bruno. Very personal and unique.
That is a shady vortex 2 huh at 04:07? I saw the same unit for sale a year ago, i didnt get because i was afraid it was a fake card. Does this card work ok like a diamond mx300 for instance?
Thank you for trying to answer the forever-persistent question: Voodoo 4 vs GF2MX. P. S. Is the fan with 3dfx sticker over it the original one or a replacement? Often they come with Aavid sticker.
In what resolution did you test the cards? From what I remember the Voodoo 4 could hold its own in 640*480 and 800*600 but would noticeably fall behind the Geforce 2 MX in 1024*768 especially in 32-bit colors.
Isn't a 3ghz pentium 4 a year if not more newer than the cards? Combined with the fact that the voodoo 4 had no hardware T&L and the geforce 2 mx did , I don't know if that makes this a realistic comparison for what the contemporary situation was? Is the reality more likely a geforce 2 mx would be paired with a sub-1ghz pentium 3 or athlon as a budget card, and excelled there where it offloaded more off the cpu than the voodoo 4 would have?
Hey! Yeah, of course you're right! The gf 2 was an amazing video card for the time and it was a big part of the reason why 3dfx went under. The comparison is just for fun, but, if glide was something you cared for at the time, I sure did, the V4 still kind of made a little bit of sense.
I benchmarked my Voodoo 3 3500 against the Geforce 2 MX 128-bit in 1024x768 / 16-bit and in practically all Glide games the Voodoo 3 3500 was faster and unexpectedly it was also a little faster in some of the much newer games like Unreal Tournament 2003 and Warcraft 3 even with totally outdated drivers (the last official ones are from nov 2000).
Great Video sucra! At 2000 i had a voodoo 3 3000, i was excited when the geforce2 likeup came to market but was too expensive and the gf2mx was a Garbage!
Hehe finally the comparison of the mid-range rivals of the year 2000. I think that 3dfx lost the battle with the V4 4500 against the Geforce 2 MX mainly because it was much more expensive at 179$ while the overall performance was very similar to the Geforce 2 MX.
This is true, the GeForce 2 was quite the bargain. But we can see how far back Nvidia slipped with the GeForce 4 non ti models and then the FX series. Good competition is so important.
Sorry man, but most of us have had that exact same feeling. I've gotten rid of so many things that I regret. Oh well,.life goes on, we find other cool things and keep having fun. Thanks for your comment.
Looks like was MX200, MX400 could be same or better in results :) Thanks for tests, many magazines wrote that perfomance of 4 4500 was "between Riva TNT 2 and Geforce 2 MX"
My pleasure, thanks for watching! Yeah the mx200 and mx400 should be a bit better than the MX. These cards became obsolete really quick. The GeForce 3 is so much better than these too. Thanks for your comment, have a great weekend! 👍
@@SUCRA Actually the MX200 (64-bit) was much slower than the standard GF 2 MX. And the MX400, released in early 2001 was just around 5-10% faster than the GF 2 MX.
Nice Video I will tell you Best card I ever bought Love the visuals and smooth game play .. Bought a Voodoo 5 later .. didn't notice any difference BIG WAST of money stick to the Voodoo4. 1 Chip .. Runs great
@@evilqtip7098 yeah the voodoo 5 is hit and miss. Some games do get close to double the performance, not all of them though. I did a video comparing both of them a while ago.
@@SUCRA Ya the Voodoo 3000 and Voodoo 3500 Glide flew in games far better looked the same 16bit or 32bit looked awesome clear did wat better resolution. But the Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 in Tomb Raider looked Fenominal !!! That glow and colors were spectacular.. With 2 x FSAA it was so crisp... But, you are right some games it got more frames but in actual game play the 4 & 5 series played the same actually.. Mind you still loved my Voodoo5 ....beautiful visuals smooth Glide.. But, the Voodoo 3 3500 in Quake 3 Arena was way stronger... Smoother high resolutions weird...The Voodoo 3 series was the best! of all ... The others were just revamped 32bit cards instead of 16bit but in facts looked the same and was a bitter disappointment till higher end CPU were able to make it shine where a Voodoo3 it didn't matter if your CPU was a lower end Celeron or Intel P4 it ran great!~
If it was 1998-1999 then yeah I would definitely buy a Voodoo 2 (or a pair) or a Voodoo 3. But in 2000 the GeForce 2 GTS/Ultra was way ahead in competition. Btw great video as always!
The Geforce 2 GTS was released at the same time as the V5 5500, their performance was similar, depending on the game of course. The Geforce 2 Ultra was released 4-5 months after the Geforce 2 GTS and V5 5500.
I remember thinking about getting the GTS instead of the the V5, but I believe I got my V5 with a discount, it was quite a bit cheaper than the GTS at the store I bought it, the GTS was a bit over my budget. But you're right, the GTS was impressive. Thanks for watching, it was a pleasure making it for you.
i use to have a geforce 2 mx i bought from Hercules back in the day. back when Power VR used on dreamcast was the new FAB. I overclocked the $hit out of that card. pinned againes my brothers new 32 MB DDR1 Geforce 2 GTS the $hit
I think it should be ok. I don't think either of them saturate the bandwidth of the PCI bus. The voodoo 5 has a PCI version and that has twice the power of the voodoo 4. Anyway, thanks for the observation, have a great weekend. 👍
Oh, I agree. I had this test platform more readily available and a p4 3.0 GHz should be more than enough to top out the performance of these video cards.
You just need to get your facts right. This is a voodoo 4. The voodoo 4 and 5 use the vsa chip, they do support 32 bit color. Voodoos 1, 2 and 3 don't support 32 bit color. I would never scam anyone.
I would have went with the V4 even knowing that 3dfx went under. I was only playing HL1 + mods and Red Alert 2. And Half-Life is just a better experience under glide. I would have eventually upgraded in time for HL2 anyways.
Legal, é isso, estamos juntos. Por isso o canal é em inglês, é onde está a maior parte do público. Mas seja muito bem vindo, fique a vontade pra dar sugestões e fazer comentários. Abraço.
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I didn't expect the Voodoo4 to perform so strongly, especially with AA. Great comparison! (maybe my favorite of yours yet)
I'm glad to know you enjoyed it! Using glide the voodoo 4 is competitive indeed. Have a great week, Nathan!
Thank you very much for testing this two cards together. In my opinion better choice will be Voodoo 4 4500 for retro PC. For T&L games better usually use today better card and Glide support can be great.
Terrific comparison! Sad to see the beginning of the end for 3dfx showcased but they were at least somewhat competitive with that built up glide support.
Great video, very well made!
I would say that the beginning of the end for 3dfx came with the release of the V5 5500 in may 2000 and that the V4 4500 released at 179 $ while the GF 2 MX was 30-50 $ cheaper finished 3dfx off.
Thanks man, I'm happy to share it and glad it was enjoyable. Too bad we don't have glide anymore, but, at least we have vulkan now.
Hmm... How would MX perform in PCI version?
Excellent video. I couldnt wait too see your opinion and results about those cards. Usually the GF 2 MX was faster in OpenGL games and the V4 4500 in Glide games. Sadly most magazines and sites in the year 2000 tested the cards with just Quake 3, 3dmark 2000 and maybe one more game, drowing a conclusion based on just 2-3 games. The problem for 3dfx was the price, the V4 4500 being 30-50 $ more expensive than a GF 2 MX when released and also the support for just DirectX6 while the Geforce had DirectX 7 support. Its also weird that 3dfx never released a 183 mhz version of the V4 & 5 to better compete with the Geforce 1 & 2 series, considering that most V4 & 5 overclock to over 183 mhz with 6ns memory and that 3dfx a year earlier in mid-1999 released the V3 3500 with 183 mhz and 5.5 ns memory.
Thanks! I'm glad I could finally share it with you. I think that with the mini GL the voodoo is competitive, but otherwise it is slower. And I agree, 3dfx charged a bit much for the voodoo 4, but remember, it had and extra feature, glide. So it could be worth it. Thanks for watching once again, great having you. 👍
Wow! Great video, Sucra, thanks! I had that exact same GeForce2 MX from Elsa, back in the day... brings back memories. Hope I can grab one someday!
Me too, the last game that I "played" before upgrading to a 6600 AGP was Doom 3...10 FPS FTW
10:00 Serius Sam. The problem with the 2x Antialiasing in with the Voodoo 4, which drops the FPS to unplayable is the fact that Voodoo 4 has only 32MB ram. Because of the 2x anti-aliasing the card has to keep 2 frame buffers only for anti aliassing (a frame buffer is 1024*768*4byte = 3MB, and we need at least 4 from them, because of the triple buffering, and a depth buffer. Total it makes 3*4=12MB. With anti aliasing we double the one buffer, which makes it 16MB. The textures are eating a lot of memory as well. To render a picture, always new textures needed depending where the player located. And that's why less memory means the textures has to be swapped more frequently from the system RAM. Because you are using a PCI version of the card, which has only 33MHz Speed on 32bit, you can make the math, how slow is the data transmission rate from CPU to Voodoo.
The 2x AGP card, is 4 times faster as PCI.
Lots of love and care went into this video, Bruno!
Now we know what you were doing when not eating croissants and drinking coffee!
Exactly haha, eating croissants is the main theme of my life of course!
@@SUCRA you inspired me. I had a chocolate croissant the other day with MY cappuccino.
Perfect!
Nice comparison!
Thanks, man! 👍
One of my cherished memories is having to pick my jaw up off the floor the day I got my Voodoo card and booted up Unreal.
It really was astounding! I first had that jaw dropping experience at a friend's house with tomb raider 2.
@@SUCRA You know it! Coming from an S3 ViRGE, the Voodoo 3 + Glide was like... 🤩😍 I really hope for an Unreal remaster with Unreal Engine 5 or a proper sequel someday.
@@metalsquid oh yeah, that's a great idea, I'd love to see that.
Good video! I was in the GeForce2MX team back on those days but always wanted a voodoo 4. Take care.
Thank you. 3dfx for me but I did want to experience with GeForces and TNTs. Well we can do that now can't we? 😆
just sucra and his buddy voodoo just hanging out at the cafe ! lmao great stuff. keep it up!
edit: in 3dmark99 did you leave vsync on? it's suspiciously hitting 75 fps quite consistently on the GF2MX :p
Hah, thanks! I'm pretty sure vsync was off, maybe 75 is the max and it was holding it there? I'll look into it when I get back.
I have been inspired by your channel and I have also collected some old retro pc parts that are Windows 98 compatible. However I m unable to make videos on 3dfx voodoo cards as I never had those cards. Will try to find some.
Hey, that sounds great! I'll subscribe so I'll be there for your first video. Don't bust yourself up about not having voodoo cards, I bought mine throughout the years and most before the price hike. There are other video cards that can be used. Good luck! 👍
@@SUCRA I have already made a video of NFS carbon running in Pentium III with ATi Radeon 9200
865 chipset has 2 sata ports so u can use SATA SSDs natively.
Nice video, I'd like to note a couple of things:
a) The chipset on the motherboard you are using is the Intel i865GV which omits a true AGP slot. Instead, motherboard vendors were allowed to implement their own crude versions of AGP, such as the MSI AGR slot on this board. As such, performance (and compatibility) suffers greatly on period correct hardware and probably on the GF2 MX as well. The Voodoo4's performance is likely untouched as the VSA100 does not make use of any AGP features, it just treats AGP as a fast PCI slot.
I had to find that out the hard way myself when using an Asrock P4i65GV which uses the proprietary Asrock AGI slot and had random crashes and utterly subpar performance on a 6600GT years ago. Switching to a P4i65G fixed all this!
So there's definitely more performance to be extracted out of the MX here.
b) Something to keep in mind that this comparison does not take into account is that this 3GHz Pentium 4 is much faster than the average CPUs of the era, especially those found in the systems of the budget minded folks that bought these cards. HW T&L on GF2MX greatly uplifts performance by removing CPU overhead on those slower CPUs. On faster CPUs, such as this Pentium 4, it's likely that the CPU can bruteforce its way and come out faster than the GF2MX's HW T&L, so you may be witnessing the inverse effect of a real world scenario so to speak!
Hey! Thanks for your comment, all valid inputs. I have a few videos with period accurate hardware, it's usually my way to go. On this one I wanted to go as fast as possible with the CPU.
Nice one Sucra! Oh my, back then AA was a luxury I just couldn't afford! 😆
Thanks, Ted! Yeah I remember trying AA and always turning it off for better performance, even with the V5.
Hello Sucra, thank you so much for sharing with us another amazing video. I really appreciate that!
My pleasure, Marcelo. Thanks for coming back to watch it 👍
Upgraded from a voodoo banshee to a voodoo 4 back in its time, was such an amazing boost
Nice, I bet! I didn't have a V4 when it was released. But that's definitely cool to go from a voodoo 2 chip to a V4.
Good stuff! Makes me feel better having gone with 3DFX back then as well (Voodoo 3 first, then a Voodoo 5). Wish I could get another one for one of my retro PCs, but man those prices on 3DFX cards..
They are just 500-700 $ the card ! At this cost its time to start a compagny and to reproduce them for a better cost.
Hey, thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, unfortunately the prices aren't very palatable these days, but sometimes they come up in the local markets or discarded PCs. I hope you can find one.
I saw your copy of Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3 sitting there, I still have the disc version of that game and still play it from time to time, it's a masterpiece. Great video, it was a good comparison.
Hey, thanks! I haven't played that one yet, I plan to eventually take a look at it. Thanks for watching, I'm glad you liked it. This comparison was a long time coming, people kept asking for it after the first edition of GPU June when I compared the V4 to the V5.
очень интересные результаты. Спасибо за это видео!
Одно удовольствие делать это для вас. Спасибо за просмотр.
Holy Mother of God! I've been searching for this game (Expendable) for years! I couldn't find it. Only thing I known was how it looks and now finally I've got it! Thanks :D
Hah! My pleasure Joseph, have a great rest of the week.
A very in-depth comparison! I've never seen these two compared and I have no experience of the Voodoo 4 so I learned a lot. I really like the directing style you use, Bruno. Very personal and unique.
Thank you, man. Somebody need to compare these, right? It was fun making it, thank you for the nice words.
That is a shady vortex 2 huh at 04:07? I saw the same unit for sale a year ago, i didnt get because i was afraid it was a fake card. Does this card work ok like a diamond mx300 for instance?
True, it's shady indeed. But it was cheap enough that it was worth the risk. Works alright, I'm not sure how the mx300 works, as I never had one.
Thank you for trying to answer the forever-persistent question: Voodoo 4 vs GF2MX.
P. S. Is the fan with 3dfx sticker over it the original one or a replacement?
Often they come with Aavid sticker.
My pleasure. I think some of them came with the 3dfx sticker and some came with the aavid sticker. I'm really not sure how that goes.
Great video. I only owned the Voodoo 1 but switched to TNT 2, GeForce cards after that
Good choice! I inocently stuck with 3dfx till the boat sank haha! I ended up with an expensive and with no driver update, voodoo 5.
In what resolution did you test the cards? From what I remember the Voodoo 4 could hold its own in 640*480 and 800*600 but would noticeably fall behind the Geforce 2 MX in 1024*768 especially in 32-bit colors.
How's it going? I ran the tests in 800 x 600. You could be right, I'd have to check it out again. But it would probably be another close result too.
Isn't a 3ghz pentium 4 a year if not more newer than the cards? Combined with the fact that the voodoo 4 had no hardware T&L and the geforce 2 mx did , I don't know if that makes this a realistic comparison for what the contemporary situation was?
Is the reality more likely a geforce 2 mx would be paired with a sub-1ghz pentium 3 or athlon as a budget card, and excelled there where it offloaded more off the cpu than the voodoo 4 would have?
Hey! Yeah, of course you're right! The gf 2 was an amazing video card for the time and it was a big part of the reason why 3dfx went under. The comparison is just for fun, but, if glide was something you cared for at the time, I sure did, the V4 still kind of made a little bit of sense.
I benchmarked my Voodoo 3 3500 against the Geforce 2 MX 128-bit in 1024x768 / 16-bit and in practically all Glide games the Voodoo 3 3500 was faster and unexpectedly it was also a little faster in some of the much newer games like Unreal Tournament 2003 and Warcraft 3 even with totally outdated drivers (the last official ones are from nov 2000).
V3 3500 is really a beast in raw performance.
Great Video sucra! At 2000 i had a voodoo 3 3000, i was excited when the geforce2 likeup came to market but was too expensive and the gf2mx was a Garbage!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Have a great week!
Hehe finally the comparison of the mid-range rivals of the year 2000. I think that 3dfx lost the battle with the V4 4500 against the Geforce 2 MX mainly because it was much more expensive at 179$ while the overall performance was very similar to the Geforce 2 MX.
This is true, the GeForce 2 was quite the bargain. But we can see how far back Nvidia slipped with the GeForce 4 non ti models and then the FX series. Good competition is so important.
fantastic video; very informative.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I bought a voodoo 4 right when it came out, wish i had held on to it now
Sorry man, but most of us have had that exact same feeling. I've gotten rid of so many things that I regret. Oh well,.life goes on, we find other cool things and keep having fun. Thanks for your comment.
Looks like was MX200, MX400 could be same or better in results :) Thanks for tests, many magazines wrote that perfomance of 4 4500 was "between Riva TNT 2 and Geforce 2 MX"
My pleasure, thanks for watching! Yeah the mx200 and mx400 should be a bit better than the MX. These cards became obsolete really quick. The GeForce 3 is so much better than these too. Thanks for your comment, have a great weekend! 👍
@@SUCRA thanks. Best wishes, colleague!
@@SUCRA Actually the MX200 (64-bit) was much slower than the standard GF 2 MX. And the MX400, released in early 2001 was just around 5-10% faster than the GF 2 MX.
The card tested was a standard GF 2 MX 128-bit, not the MX200 which is much slower because of its 64-bit memory bus.
Nice Video
I will tell you Best card I ever bought
Love the visuals and smooth game play ..
Bought a Voodoo 5 later .. didn't notice any difference
BIG WAST of money stick to the Voodoo4.
1 Chip .. Runs great
@@evilqtip7098 yeah the voodoo 5 is hit and miss. Some games do get close to double the performance, not all of them though. I did a video comparing both of them a while ago.
@@SUCRA Ya the Voodoo 3000 and Voodoo 3500 Glide flew in games far better looked the same 16bit or 32bit looked awesome clear did wat better resolution.
But the Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 in Tomb Raider looked Fenominal !!!
That glow and colors were spectacular.. With 2 x FSAA it was so crisp...
But, you are right some games it got more frames but in actual game play the 4 & 5 series played the same actually..
Mind you still loved my Voodoo5 ....beautiful visuals smooth Glide..
But, the Voodoo 3 3500 in Quake 3 Arena was way stronger...
Smoother high resolutions weird...The Voodoo 3 series was the best!
of all ... The others were just revamped 32bit cards instead of 16bit but in facts looked the same and was a bitter disappointment till higher end CPU were able to make it shine where a Voodoo3 it didn't matter if your CPU was a lower end Celeron or Intel P4 it ran great!~
Great content
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. 👍
If it was 1998-1999 then yeah I would definitely buy a Voodoo 2 (or a pair) or a Voodoo 3. But in 2000 the GeForce 2 GTS/Ultra was way ahead in competition. Btw great video as always!
The Geforce 2 GTS was released at the same time as the V5 5500, their performance was similar, depending on the game of course. The Geforce 2 Ultra was released 4-5 months after the Geforce 2 GTS and V5 5500.
I remember thinking about getting the GTS instead of the the V5, but I believe I got my V5 with a discount, it was quite a bit cheaper than the GTS at the store I bought it, the GTS was a bit over my budget. But you're right, the GTS was impressive. Thanks for watching, it was a pleasure making it for you.
i use to have a geforce 2 mx i bought from Hercules back in the day. back when Power VR used on dreamcast was the new FAB. I overclocked the $hit out of that card. pinned againes my brothers new 32 MB DDR1 Geforce 2 GTS the $hit
Nice! The GF2 GTS was a great piece of hardware. It's cool that you managed to get some extra life out of your GF 2.
Really, is it fair to compare GeForce on AGP with Voodoo on PCI?
I think it should be ok. I don't think either of them saturate the bandwidth of the PCI bus. The voodoo 5 has a PCI version and that has twice the power of the voodoo 4. Anyway, thanks for the observation, have a great weekend. 👍
3dfx fo ever!!!
Heck yeah
Voodoo4 has got a fan alongwith heat sink whereas GeForce 2MX has got only heatsink.
Indeed
Why you using a Pentium 4? AMD was much better per clock back then!
Oh, I agree. I had this test platform more readily available and a p4 3.0 GHz should be more than enough to top out the performance of these video cards.
A Voodoo 5 5500 is better than the best geforce they put out at the time. I know, I lived it! 155fps in unreal tournament with 3dfx anyone?
@@shanemitchell477 yep, preaching to the quire here.
Voodoo do not support 32 bit color so I need to ask if this video is scam or something?
You just need to get your facts right. This is a voodoo 4. The voodoo 4 and 5 use the vsa chip, they do support 32 bit color. Voodoos 1, 2 and 3 don't support 32 bit color. I would never scam anyone.
I would have went with the V4 even knowing that 3dfx went under. I was only playing HL1 + mods and Red Alert 2. And Half-Life is just a better experience under glide. I would have eventually upgraded in time for HL2 anyways.
Good choice! 👍
Vc é brasileiro?
Opa, beleza? Sou sim, brasiliense pra ser mais preciso. 👍
@@SUCRA Ah show, gosto muito de hardware antigo, mas so tem site gringo maneiro,kkkkk!
Legal, é isso, estamos juntos. Por isso o canal é em inglês, é onde está a maior parte do público. Mas seja muito bem vindo, fique a vontade pra dar sugestões e fazer comentários. Abraço.