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>Interestingly, 20 years later, the 3dfx Rampage was tested and found lacking against the NVIDIA GeForce 256 which would have been its competition had the Rampa
by wolpoli 4y ago
>Interestingly, 20 years later, the 3dfx Rampage was tested and found lacking against the NVIDIA GeForce 256 which would have been its competition had the Rampage been released.
Does anyone know where I could find out more about this? The prevailing narrative for many years has been that the Rampage GPU would have provided a technological edge for a few years.
- randomifcpfan 4y agoA quick web search finds: https://hothardware.com/news/3dfx-rampage-gpu-performance-revealed-in-a-book-20-years-later https://hothardware.com/news/3dfx-rampage-gpu-performance-re... But you could argue that the Rampage drivers weren’t optimized.
- wolpoli 4y agoThanks! I would argue that the drivers weren't optimized because the specification on the Spectre 1000 (Rampage) is roughly at the GeForce 2 GTS level.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoI also found that part interesting. Last time I read about the rampage was about a decade ago, I even saw a video showing the prototype, but just the card itself because "nobody has any drivers for it". Apparently they must have been found somewhere by now. Some fun stuff to research for a Sunday I guess. :-)