Voodoo5 5000

At Comdex/Fall '99, 3dfx announced its new VSA-100 chip, on the basis of which a whole line of video cards will be built. 3dfx, having announced the VSA-100, gave birth to a new technology - Voodoo Scalable Architecture. The abbreviated name of the technology gave the name to the first chip based on it - VSA-100. The essence of the technology is that based on these processors it is possible to build multi-chip solutions, up to 32 or more. Many people remember the SLI technology used in 3dfx Voodoo2 boards, when the work of two video accelerators was combined. Essentially VSA is the same thing. Only a more flexible and advanced solution.

The chip was created using 0.25 micron technology and has 14 transistors.

Characteristics of Voodoo5 5000

Those. chip process: 0.25 micron
Number of processors: 2 x VSA-100
Chip frequency: 166 MHz
Memory capacity/type: 32 MB SDRAM
Memory frequency: 166 MHz
Memory Interface: 128 Bit
Memory PS: 2,6 GB/sec
RAM DAC: 350 MHz
Performance: 333 MegaPixel/sec
Max 3D resolution: 2048x1536

It was a two-chip version of the Med-End video card. Two VSA-100 chips, two memory chips each. Each is 16 MB.