3Dfx 5500 64mb VS ATi RAGE FURY MAXX 64mb

MGaz · Dec 24, 2006, 01:14 AM

okay.. just for messing about with, i'm thinking about buying an old 3Dfx voodoo 5500 SLi 64mb card.

anyone that knows anything, will know it has twin 3dfx VSA-100 GPU's running SLi at 166mhz each.

this will probably be a dead lifeless thread, but i own a ATI RAGE FURY MAXX 64mb card.. & that too has twin GPU's although I can't remember at what speed??

I'll probably end up buying the voodoo5500 SLI anyway, but I'm just wondering who thinks what card is faster? twin GPU RAGE FURY MAXX or twin GPU 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 SLi?

RAGE FURY MAXX:

VS

3dfx VOODOO5 5500:

jp306 · Dec 24, 2006, 02:59 AM

It's been a while, but I think the Voodoo5 was supposed to be in the same league as the original Geforce and I don't remember ATI being a player in the high end 3D game at that point. Here ya go... I dug this up

http://www.tomshardware.com/1999/12/30/ati_rage_fury_maxx_review/page9.html

coldfrontt · Dec 25, 2006, 04:14 PM

The Maxx was supposed to be a killer card, but was very problematic in trying to get to run in Win 98 and 2000. The 5500 was a better card and a better product to work with.
Plus the 5500 has Glide support for older games.

Matth · Dec 26, 2006, 06:50 PM

The Voodoo 5500 seems to be a far better relic than the Fury MAXX, and real Glide to boot. Voodoo was a series, while ATI's original foray into dual GPU was an ill-supported one-off.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Dec 27, 2006, 08:23 PM

WHY?

Why not buy an early radeon or geforce card that would run circles around those cards?

MGaz · Dec 28, 2006, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

WHY?

Why not buy an early radeon or geforce card that would run circles around those cards?

as u can see from my profile i have a geforce 4 4400Ti that easly runs circles around these cards anyway.

the reason i want one is for the same reason i bought an 64bit Atari Jaguar. lol

and a SEGA dreamcast, and anything else that once took my fancy. i guess some people just like messing around with old (sometimes useless) hardware.

What can i say.. i have a habit of buying things that people don't make anymore.
must be why I want an MG ZS & ZT. lol

Just out of interest, i think the voodoo 5 5500 was aimed against the top geforce 2's at the time.

And that ati RAGE FURY MAXX was even slower than my voodoo 2 SLi setup. lol

When i told this to the guy in the shop where i bought the ATi, he didn't believe me

.

but honestly, if you run a benchmark that doesn't require the voodoo2 SLi to do anything it can't (such as high textures) then its actually significantly faster than the rage fury maxx was when both cards are in the same system.

The voodoos also have a bit of a cult following, with people wighting new DX9 drivers for them, and even running games like Half Life 2 not only on the voodoo5 but even on a voodoo2 SLi

.

Check this out: voodoo 5 6000 quad SLi GPU card. sadly never made it to the shelves on time. Maybe 3DFX might of had a chance if it did. ?

OC'ed too!
thats a stupidly large gfx card.

Matth · Dec 28, 2006, 11:49 AM

That beast wouldn't fit in most cases these days, there'd be a drive bay in the way... kind of reminds me of another very old network + mouse card, the DEPCA - the very original model was full length ISA, actually reaching the tail end guides on the other side of the case.

Remembering a few other mostly defunct names:

Paradise,
Western Digital... The 90C30 was storming for a non-accelerated card, maybe one of the first to address the RAM bottleneck (32 bit RAM on a 16 bit ISA card), while the 90C31 and later had blitting (mostly realized as "hardware scrolling" at the time).
Cirrus Logic, from the AVGA3 (hardware cursor) to the pinnacle of VL-Bus, the 5428, The 5446 PCI Visualmedia accelerator, up to the PCI/AGP 546x & 548x models before they faded away - until that point, I was a Cirrus Logic loyalist - they got the job done, and didn't cost a bomb.

S3, the one time king, in the days when their card numbers resembled Porsche models, maybe their newer "Chrome" will keep ATI & Nvidia from getting too complacent. (S3 Savage 4 PCI was my first 3D card)

Matrox? - they never went away, other than abandoning the mainstream altogether.

Trident, Tseng?

Going back to other old stuff, does anyone remember the Konan Tentime, now that WOULD be a nostalgia high to put in a retro sytem.

MGaz · Dec 28, 2006, 12:15 PM

i reckon i'd get that in my case. if i move the HDD up two places,.. sure. i think the quad gpu 6000 would fit (just)

i guess some are just bigger than others. (cases i mean)

lol

Scytale · Dec 29, 2006, 12:51 AM

<~JUDAS

voodoo 5 5500... any day..

voodoo's had/have the best fsaa as well... plus 3dfx/d3d/opengl fully supported.. cmon..

and the voodoo drivers are still being somewhat upheld by the community, i wouldn't doubt it that we'd see a fully working vista 32 and 64 driver available for those cards sometime soon.

skinnie · Mar 6, 2007, 06:44 PM

v5 5500 of course

asap I'll get a 5500pci

Fahim · May 6, 2008, 04:26 PM

I have an ATI Rage Fury MAXX, i never used it, bought it as an ATI fan, still have it in my drawer, two chip doesn't work on XP, only one works, and in AGP 2X mode only.