Als je nog niet genoeg Voodoo5 previews hebt gelezen komt Anand to the redding, hij heeft 27! pagina's vol geschreven over de Vooodoo5 . Zoals te verwachten zitten er in deze preview lekker veel benchmarks (12 pagina's) en wordt de performance van de Voodoo5 vergeleken met (bijna)alle kaarten die we het laatste jaar op de markt hebben gezien:
Our take on the situation is that you can’t expect the hardware to get much faster than what we have here now; the main points for improvement will be in the drivers. At this point, it is highly unlikely that the shipping VSA-100 chips will feature a much higher clock speed than 166MHz unless 3dfx has been hiding something from us.
[...] Only so much can be said about a prerelease product, but considering that the Voodoo5 is due out in stores in the next 3 - 5 weeks, it is safe to say that at least some of the performance numbers you've seen here today (those above 800 x 600) are indicative of the performance of the shipping Voodoo4 4500 and Voodoo5 5500.
To some that may seem pretty disappointing, it all depends on what you were expecting from the card. In most cases, the Voodoo5 5500 manages to outperform a DDR GeForce, but not by an incredible amount and the Voodoo4 4500 is having quite a bit of difficulty keeping up with an SDR GeForce.
Naast Voodoo5 benchmarks kan je er ook benchmarks van de Voodoo4 4500 AGP vinden, de mainstream solution van 3dfx, een kaartje wat de performance van een GeForce SDR niet eens kan halen.