3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

started 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI sales 22 June 2000 at a recommended price of $299. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Voodoo Scalable architecture and made with 250 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.17 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2.656 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface. 1x Molex power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureVoodoo Scalable (2000)
GPU code nameVSA-100
Market segmentDesktop
Release date22 June 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed166 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors14 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology250 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate0.33of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs2of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs2of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 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).

InterfacePCI
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI: 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 typeSDR
Maximum RAM amount32 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed166 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI. 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 Connectors1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX6.0
OpenGL1.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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