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Computer Gmaes Online has posted a Voodoo5 5500 review. Here a snip:



The Voodoo5 5500 is a dual-chip card, with two VSA-100 chips each drawing half the screen, and accessing their own 32MB memory bank. It should be noted that texture memory is duplicated in these memory banks, so though the card has 64MB of total RAM, it functions more like a card with 40-50MB. That´s still a step up from the 32MB cards common in the $300 price range. More importantly, though, the dual-chip solution doubles the fill rate to 667 megapixels and doubles memory bandwidth at the same time. The two-chip configuration and expanded memory also enable the use of 3dfx´s big new technology, Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (the one-chip Voodoo4 cards will allow a limited form of FSAA).
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