The Voodoo chipset is available for some months now and still there is not much of a competitor to it yet. In this review the benchmarks were actually not only done to find out a performance champion, but to make sure that all cards fulfil our expectations. Sin is based on the same 3D engine as Quake II, but consumes some more performance. All benchmarks ran at 85 Hz refresh rate. For benchmarking I did not change the default values, since every manufacturer defined the card's maximum.
Voodoo boards are quite a hot affair in two respects.
On the one hand they deliver pretty fine 3D performance, on the other hand the three chips as well as the memory can reach pretty high temperatures. To check that the boards run stable even at higher temperatures, I did not test them in an open system on the desk as usual, but inside a closed ATX midi tower case. Each system was running one hour before I started benchmarking to make sure that there were at least 40 degrees Celsius inside the case. Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by Thomas Pabst 1996 - 2001. Most of the information contained on this site is copyrighted material.