11 Facts About Voodoo Graphics

Voodoo Graphics stated that Glide's creation was because it found that no existing APIs at the time could fully utilize the chip's capabilities.

Voodoo Graphics manufactured only the chips and some reference boards, and initially did not sell any product to consumers; rather, it acted as an OEM supplier for graphics card companies, which designed, manufactured, marketed, and sold their own graphics cards including the Voodoo chipset.

The first arcade machine that 3dfx Voodoo Graphics hardware was used in was a 1996 baseball game featuring a bat controller with motion sensing technology called ICE Home Run Derby.

Rush had the same specifications as Voodoo Graphics, but did not perform as well because the Rush chipset had to share memory bandwidth with the CRTC of the 2D chip.

Many users even preferred Voodoo Graphics2's dedicated purpose, because they were free to use the quality 2D card of their choice as a result.

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Voodoo Graphics2 introduced Scan-Line Interleave, in which two Voodoo Graphics2 boards were connected together, each drawing half the scan lines of the screen.

Voodoo Graphics hired hardware and software teams in Austin, Texas to develop 2D and 3D Windows device drivers for Rampage in the summer of 1998.

Acquisition of STB was one of the main contributors to 3dfx's downfall; the Voodoo Graphics 3 became the first 3dfx chip to be developed in-house rather than by third-party manufacturers, which were a significant source of revenue for the company.

The Voodoo Graphics3 sold relatively well, but was disappointing compared to the first two models and 3dfx lost the market leadership to Nvidia.

Originally, this was just a Voodoo Graphics3 modified to support newer technologies and higher clock speeds, with performance estimated to be around the level of the RIVA TNT2.

Voodoo Graphics 4 was beaten in almost all areas by the GeForce 2 MX—a low-cost board sold mostly as an OEM part for computer manufacturers—and the Radeon VE.