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MjFrosty said:
Again the ONLY resemblance the two technologies have are in the name and the fact they link multiple cards together.
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Correct, Nvidia bought 3DFX's multi card tech but never used it. They resurrected the SLI abbreviation for their own multi card tech because it would make the tech's purpose be instantly recognisable to consumers.
 
MjFrosty said:
Nope. AFAIK 3DFX disolved, NV paid a large sum and acquired their patents stock and technologies. I doubt many staff went on to work for NV although I could be mistaken.

Again the ONLY resemblance the two technologies have are in the name and the fact they link multiple cards together.
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Theres no easily dug up figures from 2000 when it happened, but the staff were offered jobs at Nvidia. ATI did get some of them though, who worked on their own vision of 3DFX's SLI and came up with crossfire, which didn't breach the old patent their now defunct company held. The RAMPAGE 3DFX design was finished as the Geforce FX line of chips, which were power hungry, hot and loud (generally hated), whilst what came before and after it were more like the gpu's we see today.
 
ubersonic said:
Correct, Nvidia bought 3DFX's multi card tech but never used it. They resurrected the SLI abbreviation for their own multi card tech because it would make the tech's purpose be instantly recognisable to consumers.
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I didn't mean the same tech, I meant the same idea. 3DFX staff at Nvidia helped develop nvidia's multi gpu technology into what it is today.
 
James J said:
Theres no easily dug up figures from 2000 when it happened, but the staff were offered jobs at Nvidia. ATI did get some of them though, who worked on their own vision of 3DFX's SLI and came up with crossfire, which didn't breach the old patent their now defunct company held. The RAMPAGE 3DFX design was finished as the Geforce FX line of chips, which were power hungry, hot and loud (generally hated), whilst what came before and after it were more like the gpu's we see today.
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I'm fairly certain NV didn't use any of the technologies used in the Rampage. Last time I checked there were only about 5 left floating about left working. They only ever made 40 odd IIRC
 
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MjFrosty said:
I'm fairly certain NV didn't use any of the technologies used in the Rampage. Last time I checked there were only about 5 left floating about left working. They only ever made 40 odd IIRC
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1008620/nvidias-geforce-fx-to-have-external-power-connector

They did and theres a lot more credible sources than that floating about if you want to be sure :)

Like this one = http://www.extremetech.com/computing/52560-inside-the-geforcefx-architecture/6
 
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