For those who play demanding games, edit videos, or rely on their machines for 3D modeling, the graphics card is one of the more critical components. Knowing which graphics card you own can be ...

3dfx Voodoo - the graphics card that revolutionized PC gaming Reflective surfaces, smooth frame rates and the awesomeness of GLQuake. We explore how the 3dfx Voodoo 3D accelerator changed everything..

Since this was a 3D graphics accelerator, those who bought it still had to buy a separate 2D card. Without the 2D card, the 3dfx Voodoo wouldn’t be able to show any video at all, so this was ...

This was the Accelerated Graphics Port, or AGP, a standard created to more quickly serve the 3D graphics cards which were then taking the world by storm.

For SGI it was the surge in commodity 3D graphics cards in the 1990s alongside affordable (and cluster-capable; insert Beowulf cluster jokes here) server hardware that posed a major problem.