Overall, the Voodoo5 5500 PCI for Mac is a blazing fast video card. It is unfortunately held back by the Mac hardware it is running on. It also still needs work in the driver performance arena. The card provides high-resolution support for 2D with excellent performance and high-resolution 3D with quality that just cannot be matched in any other Mac video card. But it does not provide top of the line low-resolution 3D performance and comes at a painfully high price tag. Since we did not have a shipping product, we cannot bring you a final verdict, but with 3dfx planning on shipping within a couple of weeks, we have our doubts about the final product. 3dfx's biggest worry should be that, because of the Voodoo5's high price tag, their Voodoo3 2000 and 3000 will undercut their Mac Voodoo5 sales.

Happy Blasting!

Jon Simon
Assistant Editor