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		Voodoo Banshee is the first of 3Dfx's family of integrated 2D/3D accelerators to storm into the consumer PC arena to score a one-punch knockout. The ultimate bridge between 3D entertainment and PC graphics is now available with unprecedented Voodoo2 3D technology. The Voodoo architecture, which has built a religious following among game developers, is now married with ultra-fast 2D, designed to accelerate graphic intensive Windows applications.
Targeted for the demanding OEM, Voodoo Banshee complements 3Dfx's successful Voodoo2, the performance leader for 3D gaming. Best of class 2D and 3D performance from a single chip is now possible because Voodoo Banshee has it all!

Voodoo Banshee specifications

• 3dfx Voodoo Banshee chipset
• 16MB EDO DRAM, 100MHz 10ns
• AGP 1x interface
• True colour 250MHz RAMDAC
• Maximum 2-D Graphics Resolution 1920x1440
• Maximum colors 16.7 Millions
• 3D standard supported: Direct3D, and in addiction OpenGL and Glide

Feature Summary

• Voodoo2 3D Core
  • Highest performance in single chip
  • Stunning visual quality
  • Advanced features at full performance
  • Largest game base
  • 3D in a window support
  • Glide support
  • Optimized Direct3D support
  • Renown compatibility
• 128-bit 2D engine
  • All Windows GDI in hardware
  • All 256 ROPS with tertiary functions
  • Hardware polygon generation
  • Near theoretical maximum performance in NT benchmarks
• 128-bit VGA core
  • World's first 128-bit VGA
  • DOS speed beyond belief
  • Fully IBM 8514 compliant
• 128-bit memory interface
  • 4 to 16MB SGRAM/SDRAM
  • 100/125MHz operation
  • Block write with SGRAM
  • Simultaneous tiled and linear memory support
• Optimized for Pentium II
  • Dual command buffers
  • Full support for write combine
  • Patent pending technology for command reordering

3D Feature Set

• Integrated Voodoo2 pixel unit and single texture unit
• 100/125 Mpixel/s fill rate
• 100/125 Mtexel/s fill rate
• HW triangle setup capable of 4M tri/s
• On-chip high speed texture cache unit
• High precision 16-bit floating point Z-buffer
• Tiled memory architecture
• Transparency and chroma-key with color mask
• Alpha blending on source and destination pixels
• Dynamic environment maps
• 24-bit color dithering to native 16-bit RGB
• 16-bit color "expansion" to display near 24-bit quality
• Per-pixel table based fog/ haze effects
• Per-pixel MIP mapping, tri-linear filtering
• Full scene, edge anti-aliasing
• Bump mapping
• Optimized for local memory texturing
• Sub-pixel and sub-texel correction
• Perspective corrected 3D texture mapping
• Palettized and compressed textures

Video Sub-system

• VMI host and video input ports
• Double or triple buffering of incoming video
• Bob and Weave de-interlacing
• Packed or planar YUV 4:2:2
• Bilinear vertical and horizontal filtering
• Hardware color-space-conversion
• Digital vieo output for NTSC/PAL encoders

2D Feature Set

• 100/125MHz 128-bit GUI accelerator
• Full featured 128-bit BitBlt engine
• Hardware Bresenham line drawing engine
• Hardware polygon generation and fill engine
• Source and destination chroma-keying
• Advanced single cycle block-write
• Full 256 Raster Operations in hardware

Other Features

• PCI 66MHz and AGP with sideband signaling
• High speed memory with duplicate RAS support
• Dual command FIFO for CPU parallelism
• 256-bit internal buffering for maximum memory efficiency
• PC '97 and PC '98 compliant
• 250 MHz RAMDAC with three independent PLLs

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