3dfx™ Voodoo5™ 5500
Dual-chip VSA-100 with 64MB for AGP or PCI

Acceleration Features | Board Diagrams | Hardware Specifications

The Voodoo Scalable Architecture of the 3dfx VSA-100 graphics chip allows a pair of VSA-100 chips on the Voodoo5 5500 card to operate in an advanced Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) mode for twice the performance of a single VSA-100 graphics chip, delivering uncompromising 2D, 3D, and video playback performance. Advanced 2D/3D acceleration functions of the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 card include:

- Real-time Full-scene Anti-aliasing up to 1024x768 (2-sample or 4-sample)
- Exclusive 3dfx T-Buffer™ Technology Cinematic Effects:
  - Motion Blur
  - Soft Shadows
  - Soft Reflections
  - Depth-of-field Focus
- Designed for Glide 2.x and 3.x Acceleration
- Optimized for Direct3D Acceleration
- Optimized for OpenGL support
- Complete DirectX 6.x and 7.x support
- Patented Single-pass, Single-cycle Multi-texturing
- 100% Hardware Triangle Setup
- Dual 32-bit Graphics Pipelines
- 2 Texture-mapped, Lit pixels per clock cycle
- 32-bit rendering and 32-bit Native Texture support
- 3dfx FXT1™ and DirectX© Compressed Texture support
- Square and Non-square Texture support
- 2048x2048 Texture support
- Texture Blends, Bump Mapping, and Transparency support
- 24-bit Floating-point Depth-buffer and 8-bit Stencil Buffer
- Palletized Texture support
- Per-pixel Mip-mapping
- Exponential Fog Table

Acceleration Features | Board Diagrams | Hardware Specifications

Voodoo5 5500 AGP Board Diagram

Voodoo5 5500 PCI Board Diagram

Acceleration Features | Board Diagrams | Hardware Specifications

| Voodoo5 5500 AGP | Voodoo5 5500 PCI
Slot Type | AGP 1.0 compatible | PCI 2.1 required
Minimum System | Pentium II or higher CPU | Pentium or higher CPU
Board Dimensions | 9.6" L x 4.2" H (24.4 cm x 10.7 cm)
RAM-DAC Speed | 350 MHz
Memory Type | Synchronous-DRAM (SDRAM)
Memory Amount | 64 MB
Memory Address | A000h - BFFFh + 2 linear apertures assigned by PCI
BIOS Address | C000h - C7FFh
I/O Address | 3B0h - 3DFh (IBM standard)
DMA | No DMA channels exist
IRQ (REQUIRED!) | One PCI-assigned interrupt is required