[cteselle]

Now that ATI announced the Radeon Mac Edition today, I ask which one should I choose? ATI's Radeon is $280 and the 3dfx Voodoo 5500 is $330. Which one will be better?

If the 3dfx is better, is it worth the $50 difference...

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[Evangellydonut]

if you are into gaming and don't care about anything else, then 3Dfx is probably better. But if you want the G4 to be more multi-media, then Radeon is better for you.

V5 has superb Full Screen Anti-Aliasing, and has more raw power in thems of triangles per second fill-rate than the Radeon. However, keep in mind that V5 is PCI only for now (and handles less in terms of texel).
Radeon uses DDR RAM, which is faster (Double Data Rate), has a hardware DVD decoder that's industry leading, is best at 2D stuff, and have HDTV decoder. What I want is an all-in-wonder AGP Radeon w/64 MB of DDR RAM, with GPU and RAM clocked at 200 Mhz instead of 183 or whatever it is clocked at now. Of course by then, nVidia might have something interesting...who knows...but Radeon certainly put up a good fight against the GeForce2 GTS chips.

Personal opinion, V5:Radeon::Athlon:G4, you decide.

[Veerle]

I personaly would go for the ATI Radeon card because it is a better allround card. The 3DFX card is only good if you are a hard gamer. The ATI card is also good in 2D.

[MacNZ]

3dfx have always made very fast gaming cards which can be rather lacklustre in other areas of performance like 2D as already mentioned. For raw speed for Quake 3 and Unreal the Voodoo would be a great card and pretty hard to beat. However, the Radeon as also already said is a better alround card. The AGP interface of the Radeon is an advantage over the current mac voodoo 5 but there has been evidence recently that a mac AGP version of the voodoo5 will be here soon. The DDR-RAM also makes a big difference so I think if you used the tww MAC versions of these cards the Radeon would probably shade ahead of the voodoo. With the $50 difference it is also better to go for the Radeon. The only thing I say is that if you have a G4 and want to keep your Rage 128 then the voodoo can still fit in as well. Therefore you can drive two monitors as well as not having to sell an old card.
Me personally: I'm forced to get a voodoo 5 which is still darn good because I have an old PCI powermac. I'm sticking the voodoo 5 in a PCI slot to drive a new 19" monitor and leaving the internal 4MB VRAM that came with the system to run the old monitor. Should work great!

[exa]

Actually, ATI Radeons will come in PCI versions too, so reconsider your v5 buyings...