![]() ![]() Paul Lilly: You always remember your first, and for me, it was the Voodoo2, which found a home in an overpriced Compaq I bought from Sears (before I started building my own PCs). Pictured above is the Nvidia Riva 128 ZX, a slightly refreshed take on the original chip. It was the first to really gain traction in the market for Nvidia, and if you take a look at the various layouts-memory surrounding a single central chip-you can almost make out the beginnings of a long line of GeForce cards, all of which follow suit.īut while it offered competition to 3dfx's Voodoo1, and higher resolutions, it wasn't free of its own bugbears-and neither would it be alone in the market for long before a 3dfx issued a response in the Voodoo2. ![]() ![]() This 3D accelerator doubled the initial spec of the Voodoo1 at 100MHz core/memory clock, and came with a half-decent 4MB SGRAM. It was a surprisingly decent card following the Nvidia NV1, which had tried (and failed) to introduce quadratic texture mapping. The name stood for 'Real-time Interactive Video and Animation', and it integrated both 2D and 3D acceleration into a single chip for ease of use. I've still got my single-slot, jet-black reference card (pictured above), and will never part with it.Ī chipset company by the name of Nvidia would soon offer real competition to the 3dfx in the form of the Nvidia Riva 128, or NV3. Forget the monstrous 8800GTX, the simple GT combined stellar performance, great looks, and incredible value. My first Voodoo2 was transformative, the Riva TNT was ace, and I've since had twin Titans and dual-GPU Radeon cards in my home rigs, but none hold so dear a place in my heart as the glorious 8800GT. Dave James: I've gamed on more graphics cards than I can remember. ![]()
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