A hardware enthusiast created their very own 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card. This video card has not been officially released, but through Reverse Engineering De modder managed to recreate this video card authentically.
Details at the beginning Package From edition it appeared Russian ModLabs Forum, I noticed Also HotHardware is on. A designer named Anthony has almost completely recreated the video card. Although some design modifications have been made, the card is said to perform identically to the original.
Voodoo 5 Series GPU manufactured by 3dfx Interactive. This was one of the biggest GPU manufacturers in the late 1990s, along with ATI and Nvidia. Nvidia took over the company in the late 2000s and officially closed its doors in 2002. The Voodoo 5 series was the last lineup the company had worked on, and the Voodoo 5 6000 was leading the way. 3dfx has never been able to release this Voodoo 5 6000 video card, even though as many as 1,000 have been produced. These GPUs occasionally appear on sites like eBay, but are more expensive due to their limited availability.
The Voodoo 5 lineup was based on the The VSA-100 chip, Which Anthony also used in his remake. This chip was produced by TSMC on a 250 nm process, had a surface area of 112 mm² and contained approximately 14 million transistors. VSA-100 chips are now available on sites like eBay and cost as little as $ 20 each. The video card contains four of these graphics chips, two each Pixel shaders It was at 166 MHz. The Anthony also has 128MB of video memory available on a 128-bit memory interface, just like the original V5 6000.
Anthony designed his own printed circuit board to mount these components. Thus De modder modified the design of the video card slightly compared to the original card. For example, the new variant contains a black PCB, while the original version has a green circuit board. Moreover, the Anthony model has a PCI interface, as the original card uses AGP. The external power supply is also switched with a molex contactor.
Despite these changes, the new version performs “exactly” the performance of the original V5 6000, reports Anthony. The card uses the same BIOS versions and drivers, and it will also contain the same bugs as the original prototypes. The new variant suffers from problems such as color and distortion Archaeology In some games, “transparent streaks” appear in high speed modes and other compatibility and speed issues; All issues that were also present in the original V5 6000 build.
A remake of Voodoo 5 6000. Photo Section Anthony via ModLabs
