3dfx Voodoo3 2000 Reviewer's Manual page 18

Voodoo3™ Reviewers Guide August 1999
Q. Are you providing optimizations for Pentium III? How about optimizations for
Pentium II?
A. Collaborating with Intel, we have optimized current and future Voodoo products for the
Pentium III processor, enabling consumers to enjoy greater levels of realism in their games and
entertainment content. All of the application programming interfaces (APIs) supported by
Voodoo3 – including Microsoft's Direct X6, Glide from 3dfx and OpenGL from Silicon Graphics –
have been optimized for the Pentium III processor. As a result, content developers can
incorporate more intricate models and scenes, and apply significantly greater realism to the
movements of characters and objects.
As for Pentium II, we introduced a patent with Voodoo Banshee to directly handle out-of-order
commands from the Pentium II so that there are no CPU stalls. This hardware optimization
results in as much as a 20 percent performance improvement.
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