3dfx Voodoo Banshee Review - Better than Voodoo 2? | Part 4 

Interesting video. You forgot to mention the excellent 16-bit image quality of the Banshee, being the first card with 22-bit filter support which is active by default in resolutions lower than 1024x768, and has to be manually activated in 1024x768 and higher resolutions.

Excellent video and benchmarks. I got around 10% more performance with my Banshee 100/100 mhz in Quake 2 (44 fps in 800x600 and 29.5 fps in 1024) and Unreal (32 fps in 800x600 and 22 fps in 1024), but that surely is because of the driver or board configuration (SG vs SD ram, timings, etc).

The Banshee was, compared to a single Voodoo 2, in some games slower in others faster. But it sure did have a better image quality because of it’s 22-bit filter and no 2d-3d cable. It also supported higher resolutions. Back in 1998 I would have chosen the Monster Fusion or GA-630 Banshee over a single Voodoo 2 any time. For the year 1998 it was an excellent card. I would even say that the Monster Fusion and GA-630 Banshee were overall the best single cards of 1998, better than a single Voodoo 2 or the TNT1.

I loved my VooDoo Banshee!!! I wish 3dfx was still around. I'd probably still be running some version of the VooDoo Banshee right now if they were.

Had the Banchee back in the days. I'd run games in 800x600 16bit, great performance and visuals on 17"crt. Played a lot of Half-Life and KingPin in multi-player using GameSpy - much fun! The card wasn't high-end but offered great price to performance ratio.

I knew there was going to be some 'fun' getting games to work with this 😁 Always enjoy your videos!

Compared to the non-3dfx competition the Banshee had the advantage of better picture quality and better games compatibility since at that time many older games were still relevant which would only support hardware rendering via the Glide API which something like the TNT could'nt use. Also the Unreal engine at first sucked at anything other than Glide but got patched by Epic to support other APIs better. And last but not least the Banshee has one of the best compatibility and speed to DOS games. I got my Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP in December 1998 & shortly afterwards overclocked the whole system so the Banshee ran at 112/112 MHz and an overclocked AGP bus. It ran great and looked great, the Creative came with some sort of lense you could use with the correspondent software that shipped with it to calibrate your monitor and the result was astonishing. Since then I always calibrated my displays although with hardware colorimeters of course. What was a real letdown though was that I couldn't get the cockpit view to work in Need for Speed 3 which looked fantastic on my friend's Voodoo2.

I had a Voodoo2 and a friend of mine a banshee. When we had a Lan party both cards had a good performance, never know he had a slower GPU. Maybe because he had a K6/2 cpu and I a normal K6 🤷

why are the results for a riva tnt2 ultra so low ? i have seen a riva tnt2 hitting 57 fps in quake2 1024x720 resolution .

I don't understand why your benchmark resolutions are all over the place. Makes it real hard to compare with the TNT2 competition

Hey Folks, may i ask what accent he has? ;) I am just wondering, no offend

Basic equation lesson1: voodoo1>rush; voodoo2>banshee; voodoo2sli=voodoo3 2000

tnt2 ultra slower than Voodoo Banshee? There's something seriously wrong here.