RaySoft
Member
Is that a Glide reference?
Edit: Haha, I didn't even notice the spoiler before posting. Nailed it!
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GPU Maker, 3dfx Interactive Teases A Comeback After 20 Years, Major Announcement Expected Next Week
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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Edit: Haha, I didn't even notice the spoiler before posting. Nailed it!
Kadve
Member
Nvidia never bought 3dfx proper, just the majority of their assets. Still, i also think this is a hoax.
(I'm kinda surprised that Matrox is still around though, even if they don't make consumer video cards anymore.)
Matrox | Video hardware & software solutions
Matrox is a leading manufacturer of video products and components for the broadcast & media and AV/IT markets, featuring encoders and decoders, IP KVM extenders, video wall controllers, broadcast developer, and infrastructure products.
Mister Wolf
Member
I'm sure they'll give AMD a run for their money.
Now what?
Are you going to tell us that Abandoned is not a secret Kojima project???
Pagusas
Elden Member
I forgive you.
Soodanim
Gold Member
It was going to be “An announcement” but they decided last minute to give it a bit more oomph. Shame they don’t have any room in the budget for grammar checks.
GuinGuin
Banned
If real it is 100% this. Even without the shortage I think they would sell based on nostalgia.
That's probably the best use case for it.
Maybe whoever got this 3DFX brand might be pushing Intel GPU's or something like that, maybe a 3DFX emulation pack throw in with it.
Anything else I would set expectations to low.
chigstoke
Member
3dfx.com still links back to Nvidia.com - so I’m assuming this is rubbish
Doing a password reset request on the Twitter account shows it’s just linked to a mobile number with no email associated either. As cool as it would be, I think this is on the level of that guy who said he was bringing ECW back with a PPV called ECW: Weed
Doing a password reset request on the Twitter account shows it’s just linked to a mobile number with no email associated either. As cool as it would be, I think this is on the level of that guy who said he was bringing ECW back with a PPV called ECW: Weed
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
I can imagine that 3DFX is going to be a brand for mobile GPU's with Nvidia in a move similar to how Samsung's new Exynos SoC has AMD's RDNA2 tech baked into the silicon.
Maybe something Switch related? The Mariko SoC used by Nintendo for the Switch will cease manufactuering this year.
Then again it is strange that out-of-the blue 3DFX reappears. A more realistic expectation would be something like a history book of 3DFX or t-shirts with a 3DFX brand.
Maybe something Switch related? The Mariko SoC used by Nintendo for the Switch will cease manufactuering this year.
Then again it is strange that out-of-the blue 3DFX reappears. A more realistic expectation would be something like a history book of 3DFX or t-shirts with a 3DFX brand.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Best box art in the biz
Whitecrow
Banned
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Papacheeks
Banned
Nvidia never bought 3dfx proper, just the majority of their assets. Still, i also think this is a hoax.
(I'm kinda surprised that Matrox is still around though, even if they don't make consumer video cards anymore.)
Matrox | Video hardware & software solutions
Matrox is a leading manufacturer of video products and components for the broadcast & media and AV/IT markets, featuring encoders and decoders, IP KVM extenders, video wall controllers, broadcast developer, and infrastructure products.www.matrox.com
We use them here our station. They are not cheap, but are worth it. We literally run Newscasts off of boxes with matrox cards in them. I looked up what they cost and they are around $2,500 a piece depending on howmany inputs/outputs they have.
If 3DFX use to make similar cards in quality but for consumers. Bring it on!!!
Epic Sax CEO
Banned
JESUS CHRIST!
Shmunter
Member
ITS MAGNIFICENT!
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Lol what the fuck. Is this an external GPU power supply?
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Crazy.. certainly looks that way.
terintamel
Member
That power supply looks an awfully lot like the one for the Voodoo V5-6000 prototype on this page.
TDG-3dfx-V5-6000 FAQ (thedodgegarage.com)
Tiamat2san
Member
It Still left 5 days available in a week for pipe dreams video games wishes.Thursday is the new Wednesday?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
My guess: Falcon Northwest bought the 3DFX brand name and they’re slapping that on their GPUs.
Either that, or the 3DFX R&D engineers have secretly been working on a brand new GPU for the last 15 years and are ready to re-emerge and assert their dominance over Nvidia and AMD
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
LOL! Probably the first part.
kiphalfton
Member
Lol if it were an external power supply. Who would have expected that!
Kadve
Member
The mystery (or trolling) deepens.
https://videocardz.com/newz/jansen-products-claims-to-have-acquired-assets-of-3dfx-interactive
https://videocardz.com/newz/jansen-products-claims-to-have-acquired-assets-of-3dfx-interactive
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Pedro Motta
Member
They will probably just be one of many AIB partners, like EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte etc. 3Dfx branded Nvidias and AMD cards.
BusierDonkey
Member
Prepare for AN major announcement?
You vanish for 20 years and your first interaction with the world has an typo in it? This isn't a acceptable tweet and I do not accept that this is an real tweet from an reputable company. It's probably an hoax.
chigstoke
Member
There isn't any trace of a Jansen Products from San Francisco online as far as I can see.
Still nailing balls to the mast, this is an elaborate troll.
Unless they get Atari'd and produce a whole load of crap.
DigitalScrap
Member
This is what I'm expecting. Someone trademarking 3dfx since it has long expired and pushing out sub-par things with the name attached. Or it is all just a troll.
chigstoke
Member
IF (and a very big IF) this isn't actually a troll, there is a whole host of cheap Chinese phones, TV's, smart watches etc... that can easily be rebranded if that's the path this ends up going down.
As for the GPU part they're going on about, I haven't a clue? Can't see them being a AIB partner to Nvidia or AMD, and damn well can't see how they've could've secretly been developing some new Voodoo card. Maybe some poor clone of the old cards for nostalgias sake?
YeulEmeralda
Member
Is this 7 nm?
tkscz
Member
Always wondered what the Dreamcast would've been like had Sega not ended the contract. Sega was always a bass-ackwards company behind closed doors if you look up their history.
Lucky8BB
Banned
It's nice to see even after two decades people still love to talk about 3dfx products/brand 
. The difference between Software and Glide was just staggering, and I will always remember 3DFX.
It blew my mind when saw unreal 1 for the first time, and I still love to replay this game from time to time. Big open levels, beautiful water rendering, skybox (multitextures), reflections, "detailed textures". All of this was possible because of 3DFX cards.
. The difference between Software and Glide was just staggering, and I will always remember 3DFX.
It blew my mind when saw unreal 1 for the first time, and I still love to replay this game from time to time. Big open levels, beautiful water rendering, skybox (multitextures), reflections, "detailed textures". All of this was possible because of 3DFX cards
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Lucky8BB
Banned
I always thought TNT1 was already competitive, and when TNT2 launched more and more gamers started buying nvidia cards (including me), because of better picture quality (32 bit colors, higher resolution textures, no dithering blur). When geforce 256 launched it was game over for 3DFX, because no voodoo card was able to match geforce from that point.
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Bogroll
Likes moldy games
I remember the first time I installed my Voodoo3 3000 AGP (my first card ), the introductory screen as the camera flew round the castle in Unreal I thought we have gone past arcade machines power at home.It's nice to see even after two decades people still love to talk about 3dfx products/brand
It blew my mind when saw unreal 1 for the first time, and I still love to replay this game from time to time. Big open levels, beautiful water rendering, skybox (multitextures), reflections, "detailed textures". All of this was possible because of 3DFX cards
Alebrije
Member
Also the cards were made of metal gear solid components
Epic Sax CEO
Banned
People exaggerate the quality of Voodoo graphics.
In the very beginning was nice to see filtered textures, but it didn't worked actually well for some games, some looked better without the filtering. The advantage it had was industry support in the chaos that was the market during those days, but 3DFX chips became very obsolete very fast while the competition not only managed to achieve improvements to performance but also to visuals. Then Voodoo 4/5 came lacking some basic features, no wonder 3DFX died, Voodoo success was a one hit wonder.
People back in the Voodoo 3 days were better served buying low end TNT2 cards.
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Patrick S.
Banned
At least.
nerdface
Banned
Voodoo1 wasn’t worth it… cpu was doing transforms, then passed to the card on the outside of your machine to be textured and lit on the voodoo card.
Back then software rendering was vastly superior IMO. Quake1 looked far better on a cpu. Glquake had vaseline textures and lost per pixel lighting so the voodoo could do everything per vertex.
After that gpu’s were unavoidable, vaseline city, but it slowly got better. I had a voodoo banshee that performed with rock solid framerates. I loved that card so much I bought a voodoo3. AA was a cool, but expensive feature.
also rock solid performance, but the geforce2 did 32 bit color and still outperformed the voodoo3… quake3 looked fantastic on the gf2
I also bought a matrox card about the same time to play that shooter Expendable? with the badass embm water.
fun days to hobby around on pc
Back then software rendering was vastly superior IMO. Quake1 looked far better on a cpu. Glquake had vaseline textures and lost per pixel lighting so the voodoo could do everything per vertex.
After that gpu’s were unavoidable, vaseline city, but it slowly got better. I had a voodoo banshee that performed with rock solid framerates. I loved that card so much I bought a voodoo3. AA was a cool, but expensive feature.
also rock solid performance, but the geforce2 did 32 bit color and still outperformed the voodoo3… quake3 looked fantastic on the gf2
I also bought a matrox card about the same time to play that shooter Expendable? with the badass embm water.
fun days to hobby around on pc
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Buggy Loop
Member
Played the shit out of this game in coop with a friend.
Then Tribes came.. I think I spent a whole summer in front of the monitor playing this. I came back to school in September so fucking white
KungFucius
King Snowflake
I do fondly remember my Voodoo2 but not enough to get excited about something that couldn't possibly be anything unique and advanced enough to compete. My guess is that if it is real, it will be nothing more than a Chinese AIB rebranding.