Nvidia relaunching the 3dfx brand with the 3dfx Voodoo 590

[bhavv]

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

The Voodoo 590 is indeed the most remarkable graphics card we have ever seen. While the most powerful graphics cards today use at most two GPUs on a single board, the Voodoo 590 uses a mind boggling two hundred and thirty-three VSA-100 chips.

"The VSA-100 chip was designed first and foremost for scalability," says Tony Tamasi, former Director of Product Marketing at 3dfx, now at NVIDIA. "The idea was we'd built one simple, scalable chip, and scale the whole product line from there. We sort of did that with Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5, but the Voodoo 590 really takes that to a whole different level."

Sticking to this purist expression Voodoo technology, the VSA-100 chip has not been altered in any way. Like the original chip, it's still clocked at 166 MHz. It has two pixel pipelines. It performs 3dfx' patented single-pass, single-cycle multitexturing. It features the much lauded T-buffer cinematic technology. And of course, it supports Glide.

"There's more than one way to do programmable shading," says Tarolli. "With T-buffer technology, you can achieve CGI grade depth of field, motion blur, and antialiasing. You just need enough samples. With 233 VSA-100 chips, we have 466 samples to work with. That gives you higher quality effects than Pixar films."

- Does not have T+L shaders, and other useless things

 

[Surveyor]

You're a bit late in the day

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Made me chuckle!

 

[bhavv]

You're a bit late in the day

I only woke up a few hours ago.

 

[TerryH]

I read the title and clicked the page and took me all of 4 seconds figure this one out

 

[BUZZIN_NICE]

ffs i was getting excited then and then things started to click after reading the odd specs lol

 

[varkanoid]

You do realise if you try and do an April Fool after 12pm you are the fool !

 

[Taziir]

Still got my PCI Voodoo 5500 somewhere...

 

[powelly]

i was getting excited about this........

 

[DJB]

you know your old skool when you have ownd a 3dfx card for quake

 

[gurusan]

voodoo 1 8mb f t w

 

[Stonedofmoo]

I wonder how many of the kids here even remember the 3dfx voodoo cards

 

[Stanners]

I ha a voodo 1 made by orchid!

 

[Parsley]

I wonder how many of the kids here even remember the 3dfx voodoo cards

I look back at my blue Hercules Voodoo 2 fondly . That was the first one I bought with my own money.

No my memory fails me, it wasn't a Voodoo 2, it was a Geforce 2! First card I bought out of my own pocket, I had a voodoo card before that but I can't remember which one as that PC was bought for me it and it was before I started dipping into my own pocket as a kid to buy upgrades.