Defunct GPU manufacturer 3DFX have (maybe) announced a comeback on Twitter, more in an announcement this Thursday

[Podrake]

1 hour ago, TOMPPIX said:

 

Jansen Products.... Really similar to the CEO of Nvidia's name, Jensen...

[da na]

On 8/2/2021 at 9:12 AM, Murasaki said:

I was digging through the tweets and someone said "Physx cards, but for ray tracing". That sounds cool tbh.

OK, I would buy that. My workstation's BIOS has poor compatibility with RTX 30 series cards and the last released update was 2019, for the 20 series cards. So yeah, I could use that...

[DildorTheDecent]

54 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm calling it now, they'll pump out marked up cheap AF Chinese crap with the 3DFX logo on using the old adage "throw lots of shit at the wall and see what sticks" until they've totally destroyed the name.

This.

[cacoe]

A quick google search yields no results for this apparent investment company, and even if it is real, it'll be 3dfx by name only.

[Murasaki]

Imagine having a 3dfx card, phone, TV and speakers in 2022. This plane of existance is getting weeeeird.

[RejZoR]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

This makes no sense, when 3DFX filed for bankruptcy the only asset they had left was their registered names, Nvidia bought everything else.

 

This is basically another Atari situation, a shitcrawler has bought up the name and is now going to slap it on everything in the hopes they can make a quick buck off the name of someone that used to be popular amongst the people who are responsible for the current retro boom.

 

I'm calling it now, they'll pump out marked up cheap AF Chinese crap with the 3DFX logo on using the old adage "throw lots of shit at the wall and see what sticks" until they've totally destroyed the name.

3dfx existed so long ago (20 years) people who were involved with the brand know what's what and the youngesters won't even have a clue what 3dfx even is.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

2 hours ago, RejZoR said:

3dfx existed so long ago (20 years) people who were involved with the brand know what's what and the youngesters won't even have a clue what 3dfx even is.

Yeeeeeeah.  Outside of a few keeners, the 3DFX Brand is not really valuable.  If you spun up an board company and started selling GPUs with AMD or nVidia chips, much of the market isn't gonna go 'OOOO I want the 3DFX One!'

Honestly the only value to the 3DFX brand would be to sell new branded merch to nostalgic millennials.  And yes, yes I would buy a new 3DFX mouse pad.  Maybe even a t-shirt.  But that brand isn't much value to sell hardware.

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..Damnit...

*starts looking at 3DFX shirts on RedBubble*

[Bitter]

I'm gonna call it now.

Nvidia cards with external power bricks for systems with insufficient PSU's like some brand name prebuilts.

[Mark Kaine]

8 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm calling it now, they'll pump out marked up cheap AF Chinese crap with the 3DFX logo on using the old adage "throw lots of shit at the wall and see what sticks" until they've totally destroyed the name.

 i agree this is what would probably happen - but this isnt real, they didnt even register the trademark (seemingly)… seems they're  just tweeting this stuff "for the lols". 

 

 

[tkitch]

Here's what I found with a quick search:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-still-not-returned

 

 

[Murasaki]

"New items in development" include Voodoo 6 PCI lmao. Though their other tweet says only 10% investment in gpu products. "Galaxian Tablet" is an interesting entry in there.

Sounds pretty realistic in alignment with my expectations if this was real - another tech stuff brand on the market with gpus as a side-dish while wagging the brand around happily.

 

14 hours ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

*starts looking at 3DFX shirts on RedBubble*

Was thinking of a 3dfx shirt this morning I'm probably going to get one

[RejZoR]

The Voodoo 6 PCI is weird given AGP was really required for top performance. So, why would we want an AGP card from 2001 used on PCI in 2021? It's weird even from nostalgia perspective and fact we don't have PCI slots anymore either. It's all PCIe.

[Master Disaster]

48 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

"New items in development" include Voodoo 6 PCI lmao. Though their other tweet says only 10% investment in gpu products. "Galaxian Tablet" is an interesting entry in there.

Sounds pretty realistic in alignment with my expectations if this was real - another tech stuff brand on the market with gpus as a side-dish while wagging the brand around happily.

 

Was thinking of a 3dfx shirt this morning I'm probably going to get one

Interesting for sure, I'm stil 99% sure it will amount to cheap Chinese crap but I'm willing to hold off on final judgement until we actually see the end result.

 

Here's my current pie chart

10% Real

44% Fake

44% Atari the second

*2% margin of error

 

20 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

The Voodoo 6 PCI is weird given AGP was really required for top performance. So, why would we want an AGP card from 2001 used on PCI in 2021? It's weird even from nostalgia perspective and fact we don't have PCI slots anymore either. It's all PCIe.

Right now everyone and their dogs are trying to buy up PCI GPUs (and especially Voodoo cards) and PCI is the better choice in this case since going with AGP restricts the potential customers to machines from 2000 - 2005(ish) where as you could stick a modern PCI card into anything from 386 to a Core2/Athlon64.

[leadeater]

22 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm calling it now, they'll pump out marked up cheap AF Chinese crap with the 3DFX logo on using the old adage "throw lots of shit at the wall and see what sticks" until they've totally destroyed the name.

And probably leveraging the same way as Matrox did where it's actually just cheap older AMD/Radeon GPUs under license. Or worse, ARM GPU tech.

[Master Disaster]

7 minutes ago, leadeater said:

And probably leveraging the same way as Matrox did where it's actually just cheap older AMD/Radeon GPUs under license. Or worse, ARM GPU tech.

Wait, did that actually happen? I always thought Matrox did quite well after pulling out of consumer electronics by focusing on medical imaging equipment.

[X-System]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

The Voodoo 6 PCI is weird given AGP was really required for top performance. So, why would we want an AGP card from 2001 used on PCI in 2021? It's weird even from nostalgia perspective and fact we don't have PCI slots anymore either. It's all PCIe.

A few modern motherboards have PCI slots. ASUS PRIME B460-PLUS for example has 2 PCI slots   (my Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI motherboard also has 2 PCI slots)

 

[leadeater]

9 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Wait, did that actually happen? I always thought Matrox did quite well after pulling out of consumer electronics by focusing on medical imaging equipment.

Yea they did, not calling them cheap crap but all they really were hardware wise for the GPU core was older Radeon. Matrox was more about validated and calibrated firmware and software and other overarching support.

 

Still I loved them more when they were making their own GPU technology, as bad as it turned out before they gave up on that for the most part.

[2dfx]

Trust me guys, it won't happen. 

[da na]

4 minutes ago, 2dfx said:

Trust me guys, it won't happen. 

Oh no you've lost a dimension

[Murasaki]

6 minutes ago, 2dfx said:

Trust me guys, it won't happen. 

LOL! I'm dying.

[WhitetailAni]

4 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

I like how they say it's a new investment firm based in San Francisco.  https://www.janseninvestments.com/ Look at the address!  Chicago, IL!  This troll is trying way too hard.

Hold on guys, I'm going to their HQ and asking what's going on.

[cacoe]

Over a couple of threads, I've pointed out why I think this is BS, but now I've had the time to really reflect on the situation, I've come to the conclusion of "What reputable company would revive itself after 20 years and only do their PR and only have any kind of presence on Twitter, with no site and no other social accounts, no video announcement, no stream?" ESPECIALLY when revealing a "roadmap".

[StDragon]

They should team up with RadioShack.com for distribution. Like two peas in a pod.

[Murasaki]

6 minutes ago, Eviljuche said:

Their Twitter account is dead now.

 

Finita la comedia.

oh well it was fun while it lasted. Maybe this joke might inspire someone to actually resurrect the brand, who knows. Dreams be dreams!

[da na]

23 hours ago, StDragon said:

They should team up with RadioShack.com for distribution. Like two peas in a pod.

Oh and they would be sold in Fry’s!