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3dfx making a comeback, 4th GPU player in the market?

Intriguing especially as nVidia owns most of their IP though I'm guessing don't own the brand name itself.

Though some suspicion about the announcement due to the use of a fan made image.
 
Imagine the thought of that. Playing Doom 2016/Eternal/Quake Champions in 2022 on a 3dfx card.
 
Now this is some very surprising news! My first 3D graphics card was a Voodoo 1 with 4MB and that came with a great game in the package :)
Later I also got a Voodoo Banshee 16MB and a Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, so it was all 3Dfx cards for me in the first years of owning a PC.
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Rroff said:
Intriguing especially as nVidia owns most of their IP though I'm guessing don't own the brand name itself.

Though some suspicion about the announcement due to the use of a fan made image.
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The more I look at it the more it looks fake. It's not a verified account, it's a new account and as you said using fan mad art. It's unlikely a legit restart would be using fan art and the old logo without rebooting the brand. It's also unlikely this news would have flown under the radar till now given the scale and complexity that goes into engineering a graphics card.


If it is a legit Twitter account, it's more likely that they would be doing something other engineering GPU's - maybe like software game engineering instead
 
NinjaCool said:
Voodoo Banshee 16MB
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I remember being jealous of the people who had the Banshee for some reason but I seem to recall it wasn't really that great. I managed to get my hands on the mythical Obsidian board Voodoo 1s more by luck than judgement then upgraded to a TNT2 + Voodoo 3 2000 PCI combination for multi-monitor and broader game compatibility reasons.

Grim5 said:
If it is a legit Twitter account, it's more likely that they would be doing something other engineering GPU's - maybe like software game engineering instead
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Unless it is to announce a kickstarter or something I'd have thought we'd have heard by now if someone was engineering anything close to a modern GPU from scratch. Unless it is using nVidia's Kepler IP as a base and building off that or nVidia offering something on the side - but I'd imagine they'd have done a more professional job of launching such a project.
 
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yeah, I think NVidia still owns all of 3dfx trademarks, including the logo. so I'm pretty sure this is either fake or some weird marketing thing.

That said I did hear a thing about some, want to say Russian? group that were producing new old voodoo cards for retro machines. Maybe its them
 
I was under the impression that between them, nV and AMD hold sufficient IP to prevent any other party from getting into the GPU market.

Don't Intel license some of AMD's IP in order to make their iGPUs? And presumably now their dGPUs.

I don't think anyone without the $billions to license those IP would be making any kind of modern PC GPU.

I guess they could go with PowerVR for something (much) less powerful.
 
If it makes @Grim5 feel any better, judging from all the other places I have now seen this story it seems to have fooled many people.

I guess if it had been closer to the 1st of April it might have fooled less.

With GPU prices being crazy there's a lot of wishful thinking about more players.
 
Some disgruntled PC owner who cant buy the GPU he wants making stuff up.

go to 3dfx.com and see the truth.
 
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Assuming it isn't some fan/fake/3rd party using the name things unless this is an nVidia sponsored project I dunno who is behind this - from talking to a few people it seems the bulk of the talent with capabilities to pull this off from the original 3Dfx crew are either fully retired with no interest in coming back, still employed by nVidia or AMD, semi-retired on the board of other companies.
 
Got to be fake since 3dfx is nvidia property now so nvidia website would have info.
Its a new twitter account so reeks of fakeness.
 
Tetras said:
If I knew the bar was so low to make tech news, I'd be doing it.
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I was thinking the same thing.

If you wanted to start a company from the ground up and develop your own IP for GPU's you would need probably access to $100's of millions of not billions of working capital to make an impact.
 
FoxEye said:
I was under the impression that between them, nV and AMD hold sufficient IP to prevent any other party from getting into the GPU market.

Don't Intel license some of AMD's IP in order to make their iGPUs? And presumably now their dGPUs.

I don't think anyone without the $billions to license those IP would be making any kind of modern PC GPU.

I guess they could go with PowerVR for something (much) less powerful.
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ARM and PowerVR are just as big from a technology GPU point of view and both are possibly bigger from a units ship point of view. Both are built around licensing IP cheaply to anyone that is interested. So in theory 3DFX if this was real or anyone else who wants to can enter the market and bypass Nv/AMD IP problems at least for now. I heard Nvidia was trying to buy out ARM but as far as I am aware that has not happened yet.

For those interested ARM and PowerVR are both based in the UK with UK engineers making the UK the top county in the world for GPU R&D and GPU IP.
 
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