sj_zero on Nostr: One of my pet peeves with retro tech channels is when they call cards like the 3dfx ...
One of my pet peeves with retro tech channels is when they call cards like the 3dfx voodoo a "GPU".
3dfx never made GPUs. The first GPU was the Geforce 256, and for the first time ever you completed transform and lighting calculations on the graphics card, hence their coining of the phrase. Everything before that including voodoo cards only accelerated the rendering of 3d textured pixels and thus were only "3d accelerator cards".
3dfx never made GPUs. The first GPU was the Geforce 256, and for the first time ever you completed transform and lighting calculations on the graphics card, hence their coining of the phrase. Everything before that including voodoo cards only accelerated the rendering of 3d textured pixels and thus were only "3d accelerator cards".