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		Once the exclusive domain of high-end graphic workstations, the Voodoo5 5500 PCI for Macintosh brings Real-Time Full-Scene Hardware Anti-Aliasing to your Macintosh desktop. Featuring 64MB of memory for peak graphics performance, the Voodoo5 5500 eliminates the "jagged" lines that corrupt real-time 3D images with a single click. Rough 3D images transform into seamless 3D landscapes at resolutions as high as 2048x1536x32bit. In addition, since the Voodoo5 5500 PCI does all the work in hardware,
every Glide or Apple OpenGL game you own looks sharper, clearer, instantly! And for professional applications the Voodoo5 5500 PCI is the perfect tool for 3D design, solid modeling, CAD and animation going beyond analog CRT's to drive the latest, ultra-clean, all-digital flat panels.

General Features	Benefits
64 MB of Graphics Memory	Enough memory to handle high-resolution gaming with large 32-bit textures and T-Buffer effects enabled.
667 Megapixels Per Second Fill Rate	Fill rate delivers frame rate. Virtually all games are limited by fill rate at resolutions of 1024x768 and above, so the higher your fill rate the faster your game will perform. The Voodoo5 5500 PCI delivers the Macintosh industry's highest fill rate.
Real-time Full-Scene HW Anti-Aliasing	Removes annoying jaggies and flashing objects from the image to dramatically improve the visual quality of any title, new or old.
T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Motion blur	Can be used to smooth motion to improve image quality or to exaggerate motion for special effects.
T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Depth of Field Blur	Enhances reality by rendering a scene as if viewed through a real lens. Enables artistic depth of field effects often used in cinema, such as blurring all but the most important objects in a scene.
T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Soft Shadows	Adds soft edges to shadows, giving them a much more realistic appearance.
T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Soft Reflections	Enables realistic reflections from semi-gloss surfaces like polished wood or stone and stainless steel.
FXT1 Texture Compression	Reduces the size of texture images with no loss in visual quality; higher frame rates and better image quality.
8-bit Palletized Textures	The most widely used form of texture compressio. As with FXT1, palletized textures enable higher frame rates and enhanced image quality. Graphics cards that do not support palletized textures often experience severe game compatibility problems.
32-bit Rendering	Supports the highest possible image quality for the latest titles.
32-bit Textures	Allows use of the highest quality artwork seen in today's titles.
2k x 2k Textures	Allows you to enjoy the full impact of the most detailed artwork used by game developers; larger textures enable more complex, more stunning images.
24-bit Floating Point Depth Buffer (Z or W)	Virtually eliminates "Z aliasing," or having surfaces that should be visible being occluded and surfaces that should be occluded being visible.
8-bit Stencil Buffer	Improves image quality and realism by supporting a technique widely used by 3D content developers to create complex shapes such as shadows.
Fully integrated 128-bit 2D/3D/Video Accelerator	It's not just for gaming! Voodoo5 5500 PCI for Macintosh enables outstanding 2D and video applications, too.
350MHz RAMDAC	Allows users to run at insane resolutions and incredible refresh rate --2048x1536 at 85Hz for example.
API support: QuickDraw, QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, Glide, Apple OpenGL	The most comprehensive API support brought to the Macintosh ensures the highest title compatibility.
SVGA and DVI outputs, plus the widest array of supported resolutions	Drives a wide variety of display types including the newest, ultra-clean, all-digital, flat panels.
Minimum system requirements	Mac OS 8.6

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