On this day ten years ago(Nvidia)

[Mr Bean]

The RIVA TNT silicon was laid down, promition parters were annouced on the 15h of this month and the card would be released some months later.

What would be the the first serious threat to the domination of the Voodoo series from 3DFX.

Weighing in at 350nm's, on an AGP 2x or PCI slot, having up to sixteen megs of blazing fast 110 Mhz memory it was a serious competitor to the Matrox, SIS and 3Dfx. The fact it was also a 2d card ensure it was popular with OEM.

It would not be until October of the following year with the release of the first Geforce that the 3dfx would be struck a blow it would never recover from.


Lets take a moment to think how far we've come in PC Graphics

From Quake II



All the way now to Crysis



*Edit, Note I felt like making this post in nostalga, it's not been exactly ten years but hey fuck it. I won't remember to make this post in October.

[Natorgator]

I remember the 3dfx Voodoo cards; I wanted one so bad. Didn't they end up getting folded into Nvidia?

[phongn]

I remember the 3dfx Voodoo cards; I wanted one so bad. Didn't they end up getting folded into Nvidia?

Yep.

[Jade Falcon]

I think the big mistake 3Dfx made was when they decided to handle the manufacturing of all their Voodoo cards from the Voodoo 3 range onwards, rather than licence the chipsets out to companies like Guillemot and so on.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

I think the big mistake 3Dfx made was when they decided to handle the manufacturing of all their Voodoo cards from the Voodoo 3 range onwards, rather than licence the chipsets out to companies like Guillemot and so on.

I think the bigger mistake was not attempting to match NVidia TNT 2's performance in the 5000 series.

But I remember the Voodoo 3 cards. Modest and powerful for that era.

[Ace Pace]

I remember the 3dfx Voodoo cards; I wanted one so bad. Didn't they end up getting folded into Nvidia?

Yep.

And were responsible for the early SLI implementations.

[Ohma]

I remember getting convinced (didn't take much) by my dad to contribute the money I'd received from relatives for x-mas to help buy a new GPU for our computer. Unfortunately Egghead had recently gone into business on teh intarwebs so we had to look for a new local computer software/hardware store. Eventually we just settled with lame Circuit City because the other option was a kind of seedy guy who wanted to sell us a "Boodoo 3" (and he apparently did mean Boodoo 3 because that's what he wrote in his note telling us when he'd have it in stock).