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The 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Rush accelerator provides the highest performance 3D solution with full PC compatibility for multimedia graphics acceleration. The 3Dfx Voodoo Rush is a high performance 3D accelerator that works in conjunction with a compatible 2D accelerator.
The 3Dfx Voodoo Rush seamlessly connects to the 2D graphics accelerator to function as a high
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performance 3D engine for PC games or professional applications in the CAD or authoring markets.
This unique architecture allows full, simultaneous access to the multimedia features of the 2D device and the advanced 3D functions in the Voodoo Rush 3D accelerator.
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Voodoo Rush specifications
- 3dfx
Voodoo Rush chipset
- 8MB EDO
DRAM onboard, with 2 or 4 Megabytes of texture memory
- PCI 2.1
compliant
- True
colour 180 MHz RAMDAC
- Max
resolution 1600x1200 (24 bit mode)
- Vertical
refresh rate (Hz) 56-200
- Maximum
colors 16.7 Millions
- 3D
standard supported: Direct3D, and in addiction OpenGL and 3Dfx
Glide
- Connector
15-pin D-sub
Standard 3D Features
- Seamless
interface to compatible 2D accelerators
- Advanced
triangle setup in hardware
- Perspective
correct texture mapping
- Bi-linear
and tri-linear texture filtering
- Level-of-detail
(LOD) MIP mapping
- Sub-pixel
and sub-texel correction
- Gouraud
shading and texture modulation
- Full
24-bit rendering, dithered to 16-bit RGB
- 13
texture formats including 8-bit compressed and 8-bit
paletted formats
- Full
bi-linear blending of paletted and compressed textures
- 2
or 4 Mbytes EDO DRAM of texture memory
Scalable Performance
- 45 Mpixels/sec sustained fill rate for bi-linear or advanced filtered textures
- 1,000,000 Textured triangles/sec on a P-166 PCI system
Additional Features
- Anti-aliasing
- Depth
buffering (16-bit linear, 22-bit effective)
- Alpha
blending
- Per-pixel
special effects: fog, transparency, translucency
- Texture
compositing, morphing, animation
- Linear
frame buffer access
Leading Performance
- 45
Mpixels/sec sustained fill rate for bi-linear or
tri-linear filtered textures with LOD MIP-mapping,
Z-buffering, alpha-blending and fogging enabled
- Over
1M triangles/sec for filtered, LOD MIP-mapped,
Z-buffered, alpha-blended, fogged, textured triangles
3D Software and Development Support
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3Dfx Interactive 's Voodoo Rush is compatible with the Voodoo Graphics chipset and offers equivalent 3D features while providing full PC multimedia support. Driver support includes the 3Dfx Interactive Glide programming library for low level access to the 3Dfx 3D engine. In addition, Voodoo Rush provides the most complete support and highest performance for Microsoft 's Direct3D API. APIs supported include:
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- 3Dfx
Glide
- Microsoft
Direct3D
- OpenGL
- QuickDraw
3D Rave
- Criterion
RenderWare
3D Performance
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For high performance 3D games, 3Dfx Interactive Voodoo Rush delivers over 45 Mpixel/second texture mapped performance and over 1M full-featured triangles per second. Unlike other entry level 3D accelerators, Voodoo Rush offers full performance with all features turned on. This 3D power translates into fast action games with full, interactive frame rates. For professional applications, Voodoo Rush delivers crisp screen updates and fast previews of high complexity 3D objects and animation sequences.
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