Feature Comparisation

Chipset

RADEON

Geforce 2 GTS

Voodoo 5500

Geometry Features

2nd Generation TCL engine

YES

YES

NO

Vertex Skinning

Up to 4 Matrices

Up to 2 Matrices

NO

Keyframe Interpolation

YES

NO

NO

3D Rendering Features

Chipset Technology

0.18 micron

0.18 micron

0.25 micron

Multi Texturing Fill Rate

> 1Gigatexel/sec

> 1Gigatexel/sec

0.66Gigatexel/sec

Number of Rendering Pipelines

2

4

2

Number of Texture Units per pipeline

3

2

1

3D Textures

YES

NO

NO

Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)

YES

YES

YES

Support for all 3 types of DirectX bump mapping

YES

-Embossed, Dot Product 3 & Environment

NO

Embossed and Dot Product 3 only

NO

Environment Mapping

-Cubic Environment

-Dual Paraboloid

-Cubic Environment

Not Supported

DXTC

YES

YES

YES

Shadow Mapping (priority buffer)

Accelerated with P-buffer hardware support

Software only implementation

Software only implementation

General Features

Integrated TMDS

YES

YES

NO

Hyper-Z technology

YES

NO

NO

YprPb Outputs (Component Video)

YES

NO

NO

Video Features

Motion Compensation (Hardware Accelerated)

Yes

Yes

NO

IDCT (Hardware Accelerated)

Yes

NO

NO

TV-OUT

Yes

Yes

NO

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