3dfx Voodoo5 5500

Overclocked Performance - Quake III Arena

Interestingly enough, even at low resolutions overclocking the Voodoo5 results in a noticeable increase in performance, albeit a small one. Generally at these low resolutions, cards are CPU or driver limited, so we don't usually expect any performance improvements from overclocking.

At 800x600 and above, we see healthy improvements of up to 5-6 fps. Not a ton, but not bad for a 10% overclock. At 1024x768x32, the overclocked Voodoo5 5500 is able to edge out the stock GeForce DDR by a noticeable margin.

At 1600x1200, we see that the Voodoo5 5500 is entirely fillrate bound since a 10% increase in clock speed results in a direct 10% improvement in performance.