Nvidia revives the 3dfx "voodoo" GPU line

FishmanGeertz

http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/voodoo-revived

Apparently the Nvidia corporation and ex-employees of the now-defunct "3DFX" company have revived the "voodoo" line of graphics cards. Apparently they are releasing a new GPU which has roughly 233 of the old, unmodified VSA-100 voodoo chips inside of it. The performance is roughly comparable to the GeForce GTX 590, currently the fastest graphics card in existence.

I remember, in circa 1998 I got a gateway desktop which had a Pentium 2, 128MB RAM, and a 3dfx voodoo 2 in it. I played quake 2 a few dozen times over, as well as other classics like "carmageddon 2" half-life, and the very first "unreal" game. I had tremendous amounts of fun!

Pengwuino

Sigh...

Read the date on the article.

JaredJames

Spoil sport. Nice to see them in the spirit though!

Just in case no one believes the date issue: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=196870

KrisOhn

Hahahahaha, the OP had me there for a second.

It reminded me of a video card advertisement that came out with MaximPC years ago when video card manufacturers were just adding more and more chips to a single card to make them faster:

http://tinyurl.com/3ohw8kq

I tiny url'd it because the URL had a potentially unsuitable word for this forum.

JaredJames

I think the OP had himself for a minute there!