It feels as though Nvidia and AMD have been locked in perpetual combat since the late bronze age. Every Steam hardware survey you’ve ever looked at, the green line and the red dominate, leaving the thinnest sliver for ‘other’. But there was once a graphics giant who stood taller than all the rest. From 1996 to 2000, 3DFX ruled the PC hardware market.
We remember it now for three things: Voodoo graphics cards, the cool adverts that sold us them, and Glide, an API that made 3D games run at faster frame rates than we’d ever
