It most certainly looks like it is. The board layout fits, and there's still a part of the "NOT FOR RESALE" sticker on the back. Seems you were very lucky with that purchase 😀

Voodoo 5 5000 is what you have. It's a 5500 with 32MB of memory, that was to be 5000. It was never released for sale.

voodoo5_6k wrote on 2022-09-02, 06:55:

It most certainly looks like it is. The board layout fits, and there's still a part of the "NOT FOR RESALE" sticker on the back. Seems you were very lucky with that purchase 😀

kixs wrote on 2022-09-02, 06:57:

Voodoo 5 5000 is what you have. It's a 5500 with 32MB of memory, that was to be 5000. It was never released for sale.

I appreciate the quick responses! That is certainly very interesting.

I have a couple more questions. Are there any big known compatibility issues, or should it just function as a Voodoo 5500 with half the RAM (presumably 16MB per chip)? Are there any special drivers out there to try or should I just stick with the 5500 reference ones?

Damn, that's a nice to have card. The RAM might be SGRAM instead of the usual SDRAM (didn't check the partnumber, but usually SGRAM ICs are packaged like that).

Edit: the boot screen also says SGRAM.

sdz wrote on 2022-09-02, 10:08:

Damn, that's a nice to have card. The RAM might be SGRAM instead of the usual SDRAM (didn't check the partnumber, but usually SGRAM ICs are packaged like that).

Edit: the boot screen also says SGRAM.

I hadn't heard of SGRAM until seeing it on that screen, but from some brief research it makes sense that it exists considering we've had GDDR chips for ages. It sounds like it might potentially be a little more performant than SDRAM, though I'm not sure how much of an effect that might have on actual gameplay. I wish I had a normal 5500 to test the 5000 against, but they've doubled to tripled in price on the used market since I bought the card I have so that's a project that will have to wait awhile.

Congrats, V5 5000 is great! 😀

It should work (and perform) very much the same like regular 5500 except in games that requires more video memory. The regular driver should do fine.
SGRAM (if it works the same way like on Vooodoo3) might give you 1-2% more fps.

Interesting these were built on the same week of most V5 6K late common revision, 2000 week 37.

havli wrote on 2022-09-02, 14:09:

Congrats, V5 5000 is great! 😀

It should work (and perform) very much the same like regular 5500 except in games that requires more video memory. The regular driver should do fine.
SGRAM (if it works the same way like on Vooodoo3) might give you 1-2% more fps.

Glad to hear it. It's worked so far on the games I've tried, both Glide and otherwise so that was the answer I was expecting / hoping for. I'm glad I know about the memory situation, though - I initially just assumed it was only reporting 32MB because it was only looking at one chip.