Dave van Voodoo Extreme heeft op de Comdex een flink interview afgenomen met Peter Wicher van 3dfx waarin we wat meer te weten komen over de Voodoo4 en 5. Hieronder een aantal vragen, check deze page voor de rest van de info.
VE: How much voltage does a Voodoo 5 6000 require?PW: It runs at 2.5V and will consume somewhere from 70 to 80W.
VE: With 4 processors on the Voodoo 5, with support for 32, how are you dealing with heat? Active or will passive be sufficient?
PW: We’ll use fans on the devices.
VE: How will the memory allocation work with the V5 5000. Will 32 megs be enough to play a game well? With FSAA?
PW: You bet. It’s a unified frame buffer. Only the texture data has to be repeated for each VSA-100 chip. Remember that many games will also use texture compression, though 128MB is plenty even without texture compression!
VE: Will we ever see a DDR version of the V4/5?
PW: DDR is definitely the high-performance graphics memory of the future but we can’t comment on specific product plans.
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