3dfx Spectre 3000: specs and benchmarks

Summary

started 3dfx Spectre 3000 sales at a recommended price of $499. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Voodoo Scalable architecture and made with 180 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about 3dfx Spectre 3000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Voodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code name	Rampage
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

3dfx Spectre 3000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of 3dfx Spectre 3000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	200 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	30 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	0.8	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	4	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of 3dfx Spectre 3000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 4x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on 3dfx Spectre 3000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	200 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on 3dfx Spectre 3000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by 3dfx Spectre 3000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	8.0
OpenGL	1.1	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of 3dfx Spectre 3000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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