• 16MB SDRAM
• 143MHz Core Clock Speed
• 6 Million Triangles/sec
• 286 Megatexels/sec.
• Supports resolutions up to 2048x1536
• Full 128-Bit 2D accelerator
• 300 MHz RAMDAC
• DVD Hardware Assist
• Supports DirectX, Glide and OpenGL
• Alpha-Blending
• Single Pass, Single Cycle Bump Mapping
• Single Pass, Single Cycle Trilinear MIP-Mapping
• Patented Multi-Texturing Programable Fog Tables
• Sub-Pixel and Sub-Texel Correction
• Gouraud Shading

STB Systems, Inc. commissioned ZDTag, the ZD Testing and Analysis Group, to compare the performance of its Voodoo3 2000 and Voodoo3 3000 3D accelerator boards with that of some leading 3D accelerators it supplied: The TNT-based Diamond Viper V550, the S3 Savage3D-based Hercules Terminator Beast, the Voodoo2-based STB BlackMagic3D, and the ATI Rage 128-based Rage Fury. STB requested that we test all the accelerators with both 3D WinBench 99 version 1.1 and the Quake II timedemo 1 test. STB requested that we test the Voodoo2 and Voodoo3-based boards with specific registry key edits to disable Vsync for the Quake II timedemo runs. We describe these edits in the methodology section. We disabled vsync in Quake II and in the control panels of the other 3D accelerators.

In 3D WinBench 99 testing we found the Voodoo3 2000 to be 13.4% faster than the closest competitor from among these leading accelerators, the TNT-based Diamond Viper V550 card. The Voodoo3 3000 turned in an even better performance, scoring 25.2% faster than the TNT-based Diamond Viper V550 card.

In our Quake II timedemo testing, the Voodoo3 2000 performed 20.2% faster at 8-bit palletized and 13.4% faster at 16-bit than the closest competitor, the Voodoo2-based STB BlackMagic 3D. The Voodoo3 3000 again produced an even better result, performing 39.4% faster at 8-bit palletized and 31.9% faster at 16-bit than the nearest non-Voodoo3-based accelerator. (Note: The results for the Voodoo2-based BlackMagic 3D accelerator are at a lower resolution than the results for the other cards. See section 2 for more information.) In the same Quake II timedemo testing, the Voodoo3 2000 ran 68.8% faster at 8-bit palletized and 60.3% faster at 16-bit than the ATI Rage Fury, the closest product also running at a resolution of 1024 by 768. The Voodoo3 3000 scored 95.7% faster at 8-bit palletized and 86.5% faster at 16-bit than the ATI Rage Fury.