3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Instantly it is seen that the Voodoo5 5500 PCI is still a Voodoo5 5500 at heart. The differences in frame rate between the AGP version of the card and the PCI version of the card are not noticeable in normal game play in either 640x480x16 or 640x480x32. The faster speeds at which the AGP card travels at does not result in any performance gain, mainly due to the small amount of information that must travel to and from the card at this low resolution.

We find the story to be the same at 800x600, with the PCI card coming within a hair of the AGP card. The lack of performance difference seems to be based on the fact that the AGP card is not taking advantage of all the features of AGP, making the PCI card just as fast.

Once again, the PCI card matches performance of the AGP Voodoo5 5500, easily beating the other processors shown here that are offered in a PCI configuration.