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It's not just about polygons. It's about quality, fill-rate, and cost! Most PC graphics chips try to be all things to all people. But for games, great performance isn't about WinBench™ or how fast a spreadsheet scrolls.

Mind-blowing game play comes from interactivity and visual realism, and today's graphics hardware has got to do both. If you've played Descent™ or NASCAR™, you've seen the state-of-the-art in software-only 3D texture mapping. But to render complex scenes at 30+ Hz, 640 x 480 double buffered, in 64k dithered colors without blocky textures and texture aliasing, software-only solutions just aren't enough! Next-generation games need 3D graphics hardware that delivers perspective corrected, Z-buffered, LOD MIP mapped, bi-linear or advanced filtered textures in real time - and that's just for starters. For even greater realism, the coolest games deserve special effects: per-pixel fog, translucency, transparency, and texture compositing, animation and morphing. So if you've dreamed of having an SGI Reality Engine™ in your PC but haven't yet won the lottery, check out Voodoo Graphics™ from 3Dfx Interactive.

Standard 3D Features

• Perspective correct texture mapping
• Bi-linear and advanced texture filtering
• Level of detail (LOD) MIP mapping
• Sub-pixel correction
• Polygonal-based Gouraud shading and texture modulation
• 24-bit internal, 16-bit dithered RGB frame buffer
• Multiple format texture buffer (8-bit and 16-bit)
• 1, 2, and 4 Mbytes of frame/aux buffer memory per pixelfx
• 1, 2, and 4 Mbytes of texture memory per texelfx

Scalable Performance

• 45 Mpixels/sec sustained fill rate for bi-linear or advanced filtered textures
• Over 1M triangles/sec for filtered, LOD MIP-mapped, Z-buffered, alpha-blended, fogged, textured 25-pixel triangles

Additional Features

• Anti-aliasing
• Depth buffering (16-bit)
• Alpha blending
• Per-pixel special effects: fog, transparency, translucency
• Texture compositing, morphing, animation
• Linear frame buffer access

Compatibility

• PCI bus 2.1 compliant
• Support for full-screen games under popular PC operating systems including: Microsoft Windows 95, MS-DOS, and Windows 3.1 using 3D APIs including Microsoft Direct3D™, RealityLab 2.0, Intel 3DR, Criterion Renderware™, and more
• Comprehensive support for popular game development tools including Gemini OpenGVS, Multigen GameGen, SGI OpenGL™, and Autodesk 3D Studio under DOS, Win32™, and IRIX™
• Operates transparently with popular VGA and Windows accelerators via analog pass through on Intel-based platforms
  
• Glide™register level compatibility software library for full screen coin-op/arcade and DOS games

Legal Stuff: © 1996 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Specifications are preliminary and subject to change without notice. The 3Dfx Interactive logo, GameFrame, and Voodoo Graphics are trademarks of 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. VLSI design systems courtesy of Axil Computers, Inc.