The trio of 3dfx founders would surely never have expected their company's fortunes to shine so brightly, yet so short. 3dfx's maiden product, the Voodoo Graphics 3D chip reached manufacturing in ...

During the summer of 1997, 3Dfx’s announced its initial public offering, raised $33 million and launched the Voodoo Rush an attempt at a single AIB with 2D and 3D capability.

3DFX Voodoo Rush. 3DFX was one of the larger players in the 1990s with its Voodoo series of graphics cards. During that time, it was known for having some of the best graphics cards available on ...

3Dfx's answer to the combo card came a year later with the launch of the Voodoo Rush, which paired its original Voodoo accelerator with a 2D graphics chip on the same board.

The 3dfx Voodoo marks the dawn of consumer 3D graphics acceleration. This graphics accelerator, equipped with a modest 50MHz clock speed and 4/6MB of memory, not to mention a 500nm process node ...

With the Voodoo Graphics chipset, 3dfx played a bigger role than any other graphics hardware manufacturer in turning around that situation. In doing so, it made 3D acceleration an absolute, cast ...

3dfx did have an answer to the multiple card problem, with a Voodoo 2-based card that could handle both 2D and 3D duties, much like the previous Voodoo Rush cards had done with the first Voodoo ...

The 3dfx Voodoo era was awesome. ... Voodoo rush is the first, buggy, early access version of the Voodoo 1. Wasn’t the 1/2 passthrough design. Report comment. Reply.

I've actually owned two 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 cards from one of the later revisions, a HiNT 3700+ (the same make and model as shown above). ... the Voodoo Rush and Voodoo Banshee, failed.

To remedy the Voodoo1's shortcoming, 3dfx released the Voodoo Rush in 1997, which added a 2D chip to the original graphics board, either as an integrated chip or a daughtercard.

A family of 3D graphics chipsets from 3dfx that was used in a variety of graphics cards from major manufacturers. The Voodoo Graphics PCI card added 3D capability but also relied on the existing ...