Voodoo3™ Reviewers Guide August - 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 Reviewer's Manual

Voodoo3™ Reviewers Guide August 1999
Feature Summary
3D Feature Set
• 7 million triangles per second (Voodoo3 3000 at 166 MHz)
• 6 million triangles per second (Voodoo3 2000 at 143 MHz)
• 333 megatexels per second fill rate (Voodoo3 3000 at 166 MHz)
• 286 megatexels per second fill rate (Voodoo3 2000 at 143 MHz)
• 128-bit 3D acceleration
• Dual, 32-bit texture rendering architecture
• True multi-texturing. 2 textures per-pixel per-clock
• Full hardware setup of triangle parameters
• Support for multi-triangle strips and fans
• Single Pass, Single-cycle Bump mapping
• Single Pass, Single-cycle trilinear MIP-mapping
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel correction with 0.4x0.4 resolution
• Per-pixel atmospheric fog with programmable fog zones
• Floating point Z buffer (W buffer)
• True per-pixel, LOD MIP mapping with biasing and clamping
• Texture compositing for multi-texture and special effects
• Support for 14 texture map formats
• 8-bit palletized textures with full bilinear filtering
• Texture compression through narrow channel YAB format
2D Feature Set
• Fully integrated 128-bit VGA and 2D engine
• High-speed 128-bit Windows GUI acceleration
• Hardware acceleration for Bresenham line draw, 2-edge polygon fill, scissor/rectangle
clippers and full 256 ROPs
• Internal 256-bit datapath
• Source and destination chroma-keying for DirectDraw
• Color expansion and single-cycle block writes
• Accelerated 8, 16, 24 (packed), and 32-bit modes
Video Subsystem
• Support for ultra-high resolution displays on PC monitors
• Resolutions of up to 2046 x 1536 at a full 75Hz screen refresh rate
• YUV 4:2:2 and YUV 4:2:0 planar support
• 30 frames per second DVD playback with no dropped frames
• Supports the latest MPEG2 software CODECs via DirectShow™
• De-interlacing using Bob and Weave
• Separate gamma correction for video and graphics
• Auto page flipping using VBI for smooth motion video
• 350MHz Integrated RAMDAC
• Supports up to 24 bits per pixel or 16.7 million colors
• Sub-pixel image scaling technology
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