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The 3dfx Voodoo Worked So Well Nobody Saw the Problem (playstationcouch.com)
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The 3dfx Voodoo wasn’t the first 3D card, or the most complete. It was the first that made games feel smooth. Four years later, Nvidia bought what was left of the company. What went wrong? #Voodoo #Gaming

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I never had a 3D accelerator card, nor did I ever see one in action in person to know what the differences were. My first GPU was a GPU; I think a Radeon 9800? I know it was an ATI card, and it would have been around... 2001/2002 or so? Freshman or Sophomore year of highschool is when I built my first PC entirely from parts I purchased instead of getting some prebuilt office machine from my parents.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

A GPU is a 3D accelerator card, they just changed the name.