Nvidia revives the 3dfx voodoo GPU line

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Nvidia has revived the 3dfx "Voodoo" GPU line, collaborating with former employees of the defunct 3DFX company. The new graphics card features approximately 233 unmodified VSA-100 chips, delivering performance comparable to the GeForce GTX 590, which is currently the fastest graphics card available. This revival has sparked nostalgia among users who fondly remember the original Voodoo cards from the late 1990s.

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Nvidia revives the 3dfx "voodoo" GPU line

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!
 
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Sigh...

Read the date on the article.
 
Pengwuino said:
Sigh...

Read the date on the article.

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.
 


KrisOhn said:
Hahahahaha, the OP had me there for a second.

I think the OP had himself for a minute there!
 

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