3DFX Rampage, Spectre 1000

BadReligionPR

I'm too lazy to do a news submit, but this is some pretty cool stuff.

3DFX Rampage

Next Generation Rendering Engine (VTA)
Next Generation Video Engine
16M tri/sec, 800MP/sec, Single textured.
Programmable Shading
Higher quality filtering
T-buffer based AA
AA With 2 textures and Anisotropic with no performance hit.
AA With 4 textures with no performance hit
Scalable Architecture
Integrated Bridge functionality
Full AGP Support in SLI
Two recursion modes
Before and after W divide
Applicable for bump mapping and procedural textures
Risc-like address op instruction model
Cubic Environment Mapping
Texture Compression
DirectX/DXT ,FXT1 compressed textures
YUV Texture formats
Massive Multitexturing: 8 textures each with different
filtering: point, bilinear, trilinear, anisotropic (up to 128-tap).
Massive Iterators: 8 ARGBSTW iterators: one per texture.
Texture Recursion (Address ops) : recursion in parallel or series on up to 4 textures
Any combination of 4 recursions on the 8 available textures Recursion allows one texture to perturb the values of another texture
Texture Computer (Pixel Shader)
Massive flexible math capability
texture combine unit: (a+b)*c+d feeding...
...color combine unit: (A+B)*C+D where each abcd and ABCD can be:
from any of iterator, texture, previous, registered and constant values.
manipulated independently with: x, -x, 1-x and x-0.5.
Compare based multiplexing:
texture and color: combine unit: (a-b)? c:d and
texture combine unit output summing
R+G+B may feed
color combine unit: .(a+b)*c+d, alpha and/or color channels Useful for intensity ops, dot products.
Register based combiners
Larger color component precision
13 bits per component
Precision maintained through alpha blenders.
Alpha Blender Logic Ops
Quad pixel pipeline
4 pixels-per-clock single textured (per chip)
4/N pixels per clock for N textures (per chip)
Scalable rendering: Up to four chips ganged together. No bridge chip required.
Optimized Geometry Pipeline.
Viewport Transforms and efficient host/graphics IO yield optimum performance
Works with (or without) Sage geometry co-processor
Larger color component precision
13 bits per component
Precision maintained through alpha blenders.
Alpha Blender Logic Ops
Quad pixel pipeline
4 pixels-per-clock single textured (per chip)
4/N pixels per clock for N textures (per chip)
Scalable rendering: Up to four chips ganged together. No bridge chip required.
Optimized Geometry Pipeline.
Viewport Transforms and efficient host/graphics IO yield optimum performance
Works with (or without) Sage geometry co-processor

3DFX Spectre 1000 (with removable GPU!)


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craig588

I have the rev 3700 V5 6000. That is the closest to retail model they made. I checked with many former 3dfx engeneers.

Sourcer_2002

Whats that priced at?

BadReligionPR

I think they're just prototypes, the Rampage was valued at 1200USD, the Spectre would probably more.

@craig588 - You have that and you're using a crappy old watercooled 9700 Pro!?!?!?! 4 GPUs is better than one, we all know that.

craig588

I have the V5 6000 in my 3rd most powerful computer. I consider it better than the matrox pharhelia which is in my 4th. I wish I had money like I used to, but now I can barley afford to buy anything. No one is bringing work for me to do anymore.

eyeguy616

If only they had lived a little longer.... the whole graphics card scene would have been so different! Imagine: everytime you overclock your chip too much and it burns you could just get a new chip instead of the whole card! Oh well.... it'd be like having another, smaller mobo on the agp slot of a mobo. Neat concept though.

~eyeguy616