Reply 20 of 92, by cxm717
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wrote:While I have a spare Voodoo2, I don't see much point in testing that. The 486 can not fully utilize the Voodoo1 because it has to do T&L in software, for which it is not fast enough to push the Voodoo1 to its limits. The second TMU on the Voodoo2 won't help here, specially since it would only improve rendering speed if a game uses multi-texturing.
The Voodoo Rush is the only 3dfx chipset that works better with slow CPUs compared to the Voodoo1.
I've seen benchmarks showing the voodoo2 being faster than a voodoo1 even on a P100. I'm not really sure why. I have heard that it's because the voodoo2 does full triangle setup in hardware.