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3dfx Voodoo Banshee PCI/AGP

Voodoo Banshee is the first of 3Dfx's family of integrated 2D/3D accelerators to storm into the consumer PC arena to score a one-punch knockout. The ultimate bridge between 3D entertainment and PC graphics is now available with unprecedented Voodoo2 3D technology. The Voodoo architecture, which has built a religious following among game developers, is now married with ultra-fast 2D, designed to accelerate graphic intensive.

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Voodoo Banshee is the first of 3Dfx's family of integrated 2D/3D accelerators to storm into the consumer PC arena to score a one-punch knockout. The ultimate bridge between 3D entertainment and PC graphics is now available with unprecedented Voodoo2 3D technology. The Voodoo architecture, which has built a religious following among game developers, is now married with ultra-fast 2D, designed to accelerate graphic intensive Windows applications.
Targeted for the demanding OEM, Voodoo Banshee complements 3Dfx's successful Voodoo2, the performance leader for 3D gaming. Best of class 2D and 3D performance from a single chip is now possible because Voodoo Banshee has it all!

Voodoo Banshee specifications

3dfx Voodoo Banshee chipset
16MB EDO DRAM, 100MHz 10ns
AGP 1x interface
True colour 250MHz RAMDAC
Maximum 2-D Graphics Resolution 1920x1440
Maximum colors 16.7 Millions
3D standard supported: Direct3D, and in addiction OpenGL and Glide

Feature Summary

Voodoo2 3D Core
- Highest performance in single chip
- Stunning visual quality
- Advanced features at full performance
- Largest game base
- 3D in a window support
- Glide support
- Optimized Direct3D support
- Renown compatibility
128-bit 2D engine
- All Windows GDI in hardware
- All 256 ROPS with tertiary functions
- Hardware polygon generation
- Near theoretical maximum performance in NT benchmarks
128-bit VGA core
- World's first 128-bit VGA
- DOS speed beyond belief
- Fully IBM 8514 compliant
128-bit memory interface
- 4 to 16MB SGRAM/SDRAM
- 100/125MHz operation
- Block write with SGRAM
- Simultaneous tiled and linear memory support
Optimized for Pentium II
- Dual command buffers
- Full support for write combine
- Patent pending technology for command reordering

3D Feature Set

Integrated Voodoo2 pixel unit and single texture unit
100/125 Mpixel/s fill rate
100/125 Mtexel/s fill rate
HW triangle setup capable of 4M tri/s
On-chip high speed texture cache unit
High precision 16-bit floating point Z-buffer
Tiled memory architecture
Transparency and chroma-key with color mask
Alpha blending on source and destination pixels
Dynamic environment maps
24-bit color dithering to native 16-bit RGB
16-bit color "expansion" to display near 24-bit quality
Per-pixel table based fog/ haze effects
Per-pixel MIP mapping, tri-linear filtering
Full scene, edge anti-aliasing
Bump mapping
Optimized for local memory texturing
Sub-pixel and sub-texel correction
Perspective corrected 3D texture mapping
Palettized and compressed textures

Video Sub-system

VMI host and video input ports
Double or triple buffering of incoming video
Bob and Weave de-interlacing
Packed or planar YUV 4:2:2
Bilinear vertical and horizontal filtering
Hardware color-space-conversion
Digital vieo output for NTSC/PAL encoders

2D Feature Set

100/125MHz 128-bit GUI accelerator
Full featured 128-bit BitBlt engine
Hardware Bresenham line drawing engine
Hardware polygon generation and fill engine
Source and destination chroma-keying
Advanced single cycle block-write
Full 256 Raster Operations in hardware

Other Features

PCI 66MHz and AGP with sideband signaling
High speed memory with duplicate RAS support
Dual command FIFO for CPU parallelism
256-bit internal buffering for maximum memory efficiency
PC '97 and PC '98 compliant
250 MHz RAMDAC with three independent PLLs

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