Photos and Direct3D benchmarks of a 3dfx Rampage video card

The Rampage video card was choosen from 3dfx to offer its fans the next generation after the VSA-100 chip based families like the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 solutions, the pioneers in gaming graphics due to visionary tecnologies like the anti-aliasing and the multi-gpu configurations (or SLI).

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Like the well-known Voodoo5 6000 video card also the Rampage has not reached the production level and so the market, but today we have some interesting images that show off a prototype of a 3dfx Rampage implementation and some test results measured with the video benchmark 3DMark 99.

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The images were posted at 3dfxzone.it WorldWide Community forums by our member osckhar, a 3dfx enthusiast as well as collector of very rare 3dfx diamonds. According to the tester, the Rampage video card was installed in a hardware system based on an abit SA7 motherboard and a Intel Pentium 4 processor working at 3GHz. On the software side, the testing setup was completed using Microsoft Windows 98SE updated with DirectX 8.1 and a experimental driver for the 3dfx board.

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This one comes from a software engineer worked on Rampage project and enables the support at hardware level of the Direct3D APIs, used also by Futuremark to develope its 3DMark 99 benchmark. However osckhar writes also about an experimental OpenGL.dll library, and so new tests are coming.

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If you want get more pictures as well as updates on this topic, please refer to this discussion on 3dfxzone.it forums.

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