3.2. Creative Labs
December 1, 1997 Creative Labs announced 3D Blaster Voodoo2. January 20, 1998 Creative Labs first vendor to release Voodoo 2 on public.
Creative graphic cards have a six-digit product version number, the first two digits are the version and the last four digits are the production date (week). The following describes these 3D Blaster Voodoo2 graphic cards based on the Creative product version number.

3.2.1 3D Blaster Voodoo2 00974? version
The promotional image on this Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo2 box is the 6MB version. In fact, it is an engineering sample made directly using the 3Dfx Voodoo2 reference board 6MB later version.

From www.thandor.net

3.2.2 3D Blaster Voodoo2 00975? version
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo2 engineering samples made based on 3Dfx's 600-0027-02 reference board, no physical picture was found.

3.2.3 3D Blaster Voodoo2 019804 version
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo2 graphics card announced the date is January 20, 1998 (9804 weeks). On February 20, 1998 (9808 weeks), the 12MB version of Voodoo2 graphics card was released first.

3.2.3.1 Review sample
This 3D Blaster Voodoo2 was first sold, and part of it was recycled due to a bug in the chip. The chip date is very early 9803/9801 weeks, which is earlier than the chip on the 3Dfx reference board, and the PCB board date is 9808 weeks; this card does not indicate the product version number and product model, and the product serial number is different from other retail cards.
3D Blaster Voodoo2 Review sample

3.2.3.2 12MB
The product version number "019804" in the lower left corner of the front of the graphics card indicates the "01" version, and the finalization date is "9804" week. The PCB board date of this 3D Blaster Voodoo2 is 9807 weeks, which is the earliest production date of the official product PCB board, and the chip date is 9803/9804 weeks.
3D Blaster Voodoo2

3.2.3.3 8MB
The above two early versions have the label 600-0027-02 on the back, which means that the design comes from the 600-0027-02 reference board of 3Dfx. The common version cancels this mark.
3D Blaster Voodoo2

3.2.4 3D Blaster Voodoo2 029827 version
The second version of the Creative does not see any obvious changes, but only the codes FM1 to FM13 are printed, I do not know what they represent.

From www.tdfx.de

3.3 Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia has established a good relationship with 3Dfx since the Voodoo era. In the Voodoo2 era, Diamond always got the 3Dfx reference board before Creative, but it was Creative half a second slower in marketing. Perhaps the imperial alliance of that period was too much for perfection.
Each version of Monster 3D II has a Part No., which I will discuss separately based on Part No. below.

3.3.1 Monster 3D II 22150105-003 version
Diamond obtained the 3Dfx Voodoo2 reference board 6MB later version and developed its own version. The picture below is the earliest engineering sample of monster 3D II.

From www.3Dfx.cz

This version was not released in the market but was distributed in small quantities. The picture below is from the graphics card of "Diamond Monster 3D II-More Than a Worthy Successor" (Thomas Pabst). The text says "After the literally cool Diamond Monster Party (at freezing 4 degrees centigrade) in Paris on January 29, 1998, I was lucky enough to be one of the few that returned home with a Monster 3D II in my hand luggage."

From www.tomshardware.com

3.3.2 Monster 3D II 22150105-004 version
3Dfx then released the 8 / 12MB version. In order to hurry, Diamond cloned directly to the 004 version.
"Monster 3D II USER'S GUIDE" is attached with the FCC certification of Monster 3D II, and has passed the Monster 3D II certification submitted by Diamond on February 13, 1998 with Part No. 22150105-004.

3.3.3 Monster 3D II 22150105-005 version
 February 2, 1998 Diamond announced Monster 3D II .The Monster 3D II was the first Voodoo2 board ever technically reviewed. The technical review was passed on March 9 before the release of Monster 3D II.

3.3.3.1 Monster 3D II Engineering sample
"Monster 3D II USER'S GUIDE" also contains pictures of engineering samples of Monster 3D II REV 1.

3.3.3.2 Monster 3D II Qualification Sample
The PCI interfaces of the above two Monster 3D II engineering samples are not all gold fingers, but the PCI interface of the Monster 3D II graphics card in the official announcement of the Emperor League is Full PCI connection finger. The Voodoo2 chip date on the card is 9803/9804 weeks.

From 3dfx.ch

3.3.3.3 Monster 3D II Review sample
The Monster 3D II full gold finger version PCB date is 9808, and the chip date is 9804, which is a Review sample.

3.3.3.4 Monster 3D II 8Mb
The first version of the Diamond is 8MB. This version is not significantly different from the 3Dfx reference board, except that there are two pairs of rectangular marks on the back of the card. The earlier 9808/9809 week versions were compared with the 3Dfx reference board and later Monster 3D II versions, with one R99 resistor less.

3.3.3.5 Monster 3D II 12Mb
Diamond released a 12MB version later.

3.3.3.6 Monster 3D II SLI secondary card
Diamond also sold a unique SLI dedicated secondary card for two Voodoo2 card SLI.

From LOOP123

3.3.4 22150105-006 version
This version is less, but there is no major change from the previous version. The only visible difference is the choice of the two rows of resistors on the left of the “Rev” logo. It seems to be a jumper that can support overclocking to 110MHz. The annotation of "XJXJ2" has also been cancelled.

3.3.5 22150105-008 version Engineering sample
This version is an Engineering sample that adjusts the circuits near the SLI interface. Maybe the upgrade is limited and it is not officially mass-produced. The PCB date is 9818 weeks. It can be seen that after the sale, Diamond has been tirelessly optimizing. Diamond and Creative are really going at two extremes.

3.3.6 22150105-007 verison
This version lacks information and can only be speculated and placed behind version 008. According to version 008, it is speculated that version 007 is a simple adjustment to the circuit on the left of the version number on the back of the card. However, this adjustment had little effect. Only one R12 resistor was retained in the 008 version, and it was abandoned in the 009 version.

3.3.7 22150105-009 version
This version is the least, it is based on the absorption of the 008 version of the correction to enhance the low-pass filter circuit, I do not know how much effect on image quality improvement. But Diamond 's continuous enterprising spirit in pursuit of product performance improvement is particularly respectable.

3.4. Quantum3d
Quantum3d Obsidain2 200SBi- Two Voodoo2's in SLI mode on one PCB.

3.5 IO Data Equipment
IO Data Equipment GA-VD2/PCI-1,The longest and fullest Voodoo2 graphics card.

3.6 Canopus
Canopus PURE 3D II is the smallest Voodoo2 graphics card with video output and a cooling fan.

3.7 Micro Conversions
Micro Conversions Game Wizard is version for Apple computers using DB15 video output.

3.8 Procomp
The design of Procomp G111 that can expand 8MB of video memory to 12MB is very challenging.

3.9 Triplex
PCB#600-0027-02B of Mohock 3D II seems to be a reference board specially designed by 3Dfx for single-sided video memory version. The logo of the chip is changed from "3Dfx" to "3dfx", the chip date is 0005 week/0007 week, and the PCB date is 0010 week. On this date, Voodoo5 will be available for sale.

4.Voodoo Banshee
June 22,1998 - 3DFx Interactive, Inc introduced Voodoo Banshee.Voodoo Banshee is 3Dfx' first combined 2D/3D solution comes with typical 3Dfx-features. It supports the well known and widely used Glide engine, 3Dfx' proprietary 3D engine that is very easy to program and using only pretty little CPU power. This makes Banshee the only 2D/3D chip that can take advantage of all the game titles using Glide. Banshee comes in a PCI as well as AGP version, but the AGP version is only able to take advantage of AGP's faster DMA bandwidth. Banshee is not at all able to use any of the real AGP features like AGP texturing, AGP 1x or 2x.

Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo2’s 3D core are very close, however with two major differences. Banshee has only got one texture unit as opposed to two texture units in Voodoo2. This means a disadvantage for Banshee in games that are using a feature called `multi texturing' .

On the other hand is Banshee running at a higher core clock than Voodoo2, resulting in a higher fill rate, which makes games that don't use `multi-texturing' run faster on Banshee than on a single Voodoo2.

The 3D quality of Voodoo Banshee is identical to Voodoo2, meaning that it doesn't have a more than 16 bit deep Z-buffer and cannot do real 32-bit color rendering either.

Technical specification of Voodoo Banshee:
Video memory capacity:8/16MB
Bus type:SDRAM/SGRAM
Bus interface:PCI/AGP
Core clock：100 MHz
Memory clock：100 MHz
Triangle processing speed/s:4M
Pixels/s:100M
Textels/s:100M
RAMDAC:250 MHz
Maximum resolution:1920x1440
Fab (nm)：350 nm

4.1 3Dfx
4.1.1 Voodoo Banshee Chip Evaluation Board
4.1.1.1 PCB#600-0033-03
This is the middle and late Banshee chip evaluation board, the PCB date is 9824weeks, and the AGP interface.

The chip is 500-0008-04, the date is 9823weeks, and it is packaged in a 0.35 micron BGA.

4.1.1.2 PCB#600-0034-03
This is the Voodoo Banshee chip evaluation board in the middle and late stages of the PCI interface.

This 3Dfx graphics card was labeled with Maxi Gamer Phoenix graphics card by Guillemot International as an official promotional image. Guillemot International actually uses PCB#600-0034-04 reference board.

4.1.2 Voodoo Banshee Reference board
Voodoo Banshee reference boards have many types, mainly the following four types.

4.1.2.1 PCB#600-0035-03
AGP interface, 16MB SDRAM video memory, PCB date 9834 weeks. The chip is the official version 500-0013-03, and the date is 9835weeks.

4.1.2.2 PCB#600-0043-01
AGP interface, 16MB SGRAM video memory, 9835weeks, chip is 500-0013-04, date is 9849weeks.

4.1.2.3 PCB#600-0044-02
PCI interface, 16MB SGRAM video memory, PCB date 9836 weeks.

4.1.2.4 PCB#600-0045-01
PCI interface, 16MB SDRAM video memory. Seen in Osckhar's collection, his 3Dfx graphics card engineering samples are complete. After all, he took over the 3Dfx museum, starting with the earliest Obsidian green version of the 3Dfx engineering sample graphics cards.

4.2 Creative Labs
Creative Labs first to release 3Dfx Banshee chip graphics card-3D Blaster Banshee, shipped at the end of September 1998 (9840 weeks).

4.2.1 3D Blaster Banshee PCI
The first 3D Blaster Banshee PCI on sale uses the 3Dfx PCB#600-0045-01 reference board, and it is finalized in 9834 weeks.

4.2.2 3D Blaster Banshee AGP
The 3D Blaster Banshee AGP, which will be released later, is a self-designed version and the only 3Dfx chip graphics card independently designed by Creative Labs.

4.2.1.1 Engineering sample
The finalization number of this engineering sample is 009829, which is finalized in the 29th week of 1998. The PCB date is 9837 weeks.

4.2.1.2 Official product

4.3 Diamond Multimedia
The initial design of Monster Fusion series graphics cards is based on 3Dfx reference boards, and there are also independent designs. Two versions were finally mass-produced. It went on sale in early November 1998.

4.3.1 Monster Fusion AGP
Partially adjusted based on 3Dfx PCB#600-0043-01 reference board.
4.3.1.1 Engineering sample

4.3.1.2 Qualification Sample
4.3.1.2.1 REV 2

4.3.1.2.1 REV 4 BIOS V1.00E

4.3.1.2.1 REV 4
PCB date is 9835 weeks.

4.3.1.3 Official product

4.3.2 Monster Fusion PCI
4.3.2.1 Engineering sample
This is a castrated version of 3Dfx's PCB#600-0034-03 version. But this SGRAM version was finally abandoned, and the self-designed SDRAM version was enabled.

4.3.2.2 Official product

4.4 Quantum3D
Quantum3D Raven graphics cards are common, based on the 3Dfx Banshee reference design.

4.5 ASUS
ASUS Banshee graphics card is VIVO design, video output is cancelled at retail, as is the high-end AGP-V3200/16M.

4.6 IO Data Equipment
GA-VDB16/PCI-1 has a unique design.

4.7 PMC Ltd
Banshee graphics cards have a video output design, but there are very few cards that really have video output. The Pace3D edge graphics card is directly made with the PCB#600-0033-03 evaluation board.

4.8 Village Tronic
MP850 is Apple's Banshee graphics card with bright colors.

4.9 STB
4.9.1 Lightspeed 3300 review sample
This PCB marked Pc2A Lightspeed 3300 graphics card is undoubtedly a review sample, the PCB date is 9841 weeks, and the graphics card production date is 9842 weeks. The BIOS version is 1.2, and the official version is 1.5.

4.9.2 Lightspeed 3300
The production date of the Lightspeed 3300 graphics card below is 9906 weeks. After 3Dfx acquired STB, it still sells Lightspeed 3300 graphics cards to fill the transition period before Voodoo3 retail.

STB is an important partner of nVidia. From the first launch of Riva128 chip graphics card to the era of riva TNT graphics card, it has a very close relationship with nVidia. The cooperation with 3Dfx is relatively plain. On February 20, 1998, Creative Labs first released the Voodoo2 chip graphics card. STB’s Voodoo2 chip graphics card was still in the engineering sample stage on April 8. At the end of September 1998 (9840 weeks) Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee chip graphics cards had already been shipped. At 9842 weeks, STB Voodoo Banshee chip graphics card is still a review sample. The acquisition of STB by 3Dfx on December 14, 1998 (9851 weeks) may have the purpose of suppressing nVidia, but it was mainly to create a grand blueprint for the post-Voodoo era.