3dfx Spectre 3000: specs and benchmarks
Summary
started 3dfx Spectre 3000 sales at a recommended price of $499. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Voodoo Scalable architecture and made with 180 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about 3dfx Spectre 3000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Voodoo Scalable (2000) | |
| GPU code name | Rampage | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data (2024 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
3dfx Spectre 3000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of 3dfx Spectre 3000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 30 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 180 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of 3dfx Spectre 3000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | AGP 4x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on 3dfx Spectre 3000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on 3dfx Spectre 3000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by 3dfx Spectre 3000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 8.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
