Warp3D and a Radeon 9250 ?

[Lurch]

There was a Voodoo 3 forsale on Amibay for 10 GBP, has sold though. I'd post a wanted ad on there you'll usually get a quick reply and a better price than Ebay. :-)

Some people will say there's no speed difference between the Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 5 5500 but there is, and the extra RAM on the Voodoo 5 is great :-)

Only downside is that the Voodoo drivers only support one of the GPUs on the Voodoo 5 :-/

[Lurch]

Well i managed to run in 640 x 480 with the radeon and by heck its slow, once i have got xmas out the way i will be saving my pennies for a new accelerator hopefully atleast an 060

It will be slow as the Radeon doesn't support 3d so no hardware acceleration.

[Lurch]

My Voodoo 4 performs better with deeper and higher resolution screens but my Voodoo 3 with SGRAM is faster in memory and for some 2D operations. The extra memory is nice but the extra cost is not unless finding a bargain. The Voodoo 4 doesn't need an extra power supply like the Voodoo 5 so it is more practical. The Elbox 2D drivers have problems with big endian modes on the Voodoo 4/5 and the latest voodoo.card and pci.library don't work at all. A Voodoo 3 3000 with SGRAM is competitive with the Voodoo 4/5 in a Mediator and is one of the fastest and best 2D/3D gfx solutions for any classic Amiga.

Would have to disagree, even Doom/quake runs a lot better with the Voodoo 5 card over my Voodoo 3. Plus workbench runs smoother and I can get 1920x1080 with high true colour (or whatever it is) so if one can get a really good deal (which come up quite often on Amibay) I'd get the Voodoo 5.

The display also looks sharper, doesn't compare to the ATI card for 2D though.

I can also over clock the Vooodoo 5 higher than I could with the Voodoo 3 and the gains can be seen in frame rate. The latest drivers work fine for me. As for it needing additional power  it's no different than plugging in a HDD so not really a good reason to not get a Voodoo 5 if you can.

So from a real world point of view Voodoo 5 ftw.

Currently I'm using 256MB of RAM from the Radeon 9200 as system memory and a 16MB from the Voodoo 5. Which proved to be the best combo for gaming 3d/2d performance.