3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV

Performance

As we've repeatedly made note of in this article, the Voodoo3 3500 TV is essentially a 3000 operating at a higher clock speed (both memory and core). So the performance of the 3500 is essentially a certain percentage faster than that of the 3000, therefore eliminating the need to compare performance on every single platform at every single resolution or detail setting.

We tested on two different test beds, using a total of four different processors.  The first test bed was an ABIT BE6 motherboard, with 128MB SDRAM, and an IBM 22GB Ultra ATA 66 HDD.  The three processors used on the first test bed were the Pentium III 600, Pentium III 450, and Pentium II 300.

The second test bed was configured identically to the first one with the with the motherboard and CPU being the only exceptions.  The motherboard used was the Tyan Trinity S1598 MVP3 based Super7 board and the CPU used was the AMD K6-3 450. 

Expendable and 3DMark 99 were used to benchmark Direct3D performance.  All Direct3D tests were run at 1024 x 768 at a 16-bit color depth.  The Expendable timedemo was run by executing 'go -timedemo'

The Quake 3 Arena Test 1.07 benchmark was run at five different preset video settings.  The Fastest, Fast, Normal, and High Quality (32-bit) settings were all selected directly from the test's Graphics Configuration menu.  Due to the Voodoo3's lack of 32-bit rendering support, Trilinear filtering and all 32-bit rendering remained disabled in the High Quality setting which normally uses Trilinear Filtering and 32-bit rendering, this resulted in a High Quality (16-bit) test in order to even out the playing field.  

The Q3Test timedemo was run by typing 'timedemo 1' then 'demo q3testdemo1.dm3' in the console (hit '~' to bring up the console)

The latest drivers available as of August 2, 1999 were used for their respective cards.

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