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3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 is the rarest video card sold on eBay for $15,000

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3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 is the rarest video card sold on eBay for ,000

The collector was able to purchase a rare video card from 3dfx, which never made it to store shelves. It’s called 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000.

What is known

The Voodoo 5 6000 could be the last graphics card from 3dfx, which was once the market leader before it was taken over by NVIDIA. However, the developers made many mistakes, due to which the release was postponed several times, and in the end it never took place.

The 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 featured four 166 MHz VSA-100 graphics chips. Each GPU had 14 million transistors, which no competitor could boast of. The total amount of video memory was 128 MB (32 MB per chip).

One of the collectors was able to purchase a 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 prototype on eBay. The instance is labeled 3700A and supports 8X FSAA. The buyer shelled out $15,000 for the card and claims it fixes most of the issues. By the way, at the start of sales 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 cost less than $300.

Source: eBay





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