Thresh en Kornuiten hebben een interview met Scott Sellers van 3dfx gehad om zo eens wat meer info los te peuteren over de VSA-100 chip die straks op de Voodoo4 en 5 geplant wordt. Hieronder vast een paar vragen:
3dfx: Is the VSA-100 Engine, the chip that powers the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5, still based on the original Voodoo Graphics core, or is it an all new design?Scott Sellers: It's somewhere in between. The VSA-100 is still based on the Voodoo Graphics core, for compatibility reasons, but we've made significant changes to the overall design. We had to build in support for 32-bit color, 2 pixels per clock rendering, new texture modes, new combine modes, tremendous scalability improvements, support for texture compression, larger texture sizes and a number of other new features. At heart, it's the Voodoo core, with lots of substantial changes. As a result, we consider it to be really close to a new architecture.
Meer info over hoe het design van de kaarten anders is dan de originele Voodoo graphics lees je hier.
