Its kinda funny how technology changes so quickly. I've been staring at 3dfx's (when they where 3dfx, now nvidia bought them out) Voodoo 5 preview (which means it was never released, it was a preview of the highest end card of the day):
VOODOO 5: April 24, 2000
Integrated 128-bit 3D/2D
VSA-100 processor(x2)
2-way SLI scalability
64MB SDRAM
166MHz/166MHz core/memory clock
Dual pixel pipeline
667Mpixels/s fill rate
667Mtexels/s fill rate
1X/2X/4X AGP with full sideband support
32-bit rendering
32-bit textures
2Kx2K maximum texture size support
Single-cycle trilinear mipmapping
Up to 24-bit floating point depth buffer (Z and W)
8-bit stencil buffer
DirectX texture compression and 3dfx FXT1 texture compression
T-buffer technology
2X and 4X full-scene hardware anti-aliasing
Depth-of-field blur
Motion blur
128-bit Windows GUI accelerator
350MHz RAMDAC
Planar-to-packed-pixel digital video format conversion (DVD Hardware assist).
Now compare that to the newest high end card by Nvidia:
NVIDIA GEFORCE 6800 ULTRA PCI-X: June 7, 2005
0.13 Micron Process Technology
256-Bit Graphics Processing Unit
256-Bit Memory Interface w/GDDR3 Memory
Memory Bandwidth - 35.2GB per Second
Fill Rate - 6.4 Billion Texels per Second
Vertex Processing - 600 Million Vertices per Second
Superscalar 16-Pipeline Architecture
CineFX 3.0 Engine - Shader Model 3.0
On-Chip Video Processor
UltraShadow II Technology
High-Precision Dynamic-Range Technology
Full-Speed 32-Bit Color Precision
Intellisample 3.0 Technology
Full MPEG Support
Advanced Adaptive De-Interlacing
Video Scaling and Filtering
Integrated TV Encoder
PCI Express Support
Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
Dual Single-Link DVI Support
Unified Driver Architecture
nView Multi-Display Technology
Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 2 Support
It just makes you laugh. sort of. :-\
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