ATI has done it, and 3dfx did it as well, but up until now there's has never been a dual chip 3D card based on nVidia technology.
Anyone who knows something of the history of graphics cards won’t be too surprised by the 3D1. Impressed maybe, but not surprised. As soon as nVidia made the announcement out of the blue late last year that it was bringing back SLi technology, it seemed as though the clock had rolled back for graphics fans. 3dfx, the company that brought 3D graphics on the PC into the mainstream, first introduced the original version of SLi technology with its Voodoo 2 cards, and it ruled the roost until nVidia itself matched the performance with its single card Twin Texel Engine TNT line. nVidia then began to rapidly climb to the top of the 3D pile and by the time it introduced the GeForce, ATI had to pull something out of the hat to keep up. The result was the Rage Fury MAXX sporting dual Rage 128 Pro chips and an amazing 64MB of memory! By this time next year, dual cores will have become a mainstream part of the PC industry, but back then dual chips on one card was a radical concept.
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Feb 18, 2005, 07:12 PM
