A look back at the 3dfx Voodoo 2 – the last dedicated 3D graphics card

A look back at the 3dfx Voodoo 2 – the last dedicated 3D graphics card

Just how do you follow up a graphics card as beloved, ground-breaking, and just plain damn awesome as the original 3dfx Voodoo Graphics? There was, after all, no way to repeat that gargantuan leap from the grainy, low-resolution horror of CPU-bound 3D rendering to the smoothness of hardware-accelerated rendering again, but the 3dfx Voodoo 2 still managed to maintain that momentum.

Not only did the Voodoo 2 give you the ability to upgrade your 3D gaming resolution from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600, but if you paired two of them together with a ribbon cable in the new SLI mode, you could even play games at 1,024 x 768 (cue sarcastic jaw drop). If you played games, the 3dfx Voodoo 2 was undoubtedly the best graphics card of its day.

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