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It was a pioneer in the field from the late 1990s to 2000. The company's original product was the Voodoo Graphics, an add-in card that implemented hardware acceleration of 3D graphics. The hardware accelerated only 3D rendering, relying on the PC's current video card for 2D support.
Aug 5, 2021 · August 5th. 3dfx Day. The moment long promised when '90s graphics card manufacturer 3dfx Interactive would rise from the ashes and present us with a stunning new range of video cards. And what...
The Voodoo Graphics 4 MB was a performance-segment graphics card by 3dfx, launched on October 7th, 1996. Built on the 500 nm process, and based on the SST1 graphics processor, in its 500-0003-03 variant, the card supports DirectX 5.0.
May 20, 2021 · 3Dfx's Voodoo and Voodoo2 graphics are widely credited with jump-starting 3D gaming and revolutionizing computer graphics nearly overnight. The 3D landscape in 1996 favored S3 Graphics with...
May 27, 2024 · The story of the 3dfx Voodoo 3D is a classic case of being the right company with the right tech at the right time. 3dfx launched its revolutionary Voodoo Graphics chipset just as fully...
Feb 16, 2018 · In a few short years, the graphics card company 3Dfx Interactive provided a polygon-laden shock to the PC world—then fell apart, fast. What happened?
Feb 19, 2021 · Voodoo 5 6000 was a single-slot graphics card based on 3dfx's VSA-100 (Napalm 30) die, or rather four of them, and it was quite the GPU back then. The VSA-100 chips, which measured 112mm²,...
Aug 5, 2021 · It wasn't until the Voodoo 3 that 3dfx shipped a plausible solution with simultaneous 2D and 3D support, and that GPU lacked large texture support (V3 topped out at 256x256, compared to 2048x2048...
Aug 2, 2021 · 3dfx Interactive, a long-gone GPU manufacturer that was big in the 1990s, is poised to return to the world of graphics cards later this week, going by a tweet that has just been spotted. However...
Feb 21, 2021 · An engineer associated with Russian hardware site ModLabs has successfully reverse engineered and produced a modernized version of what was supposed to be 3dfx Interactive’s most powerful graphics card ever, the Voodoo 5 6000.
