alt Hacker News> the very first GPUs, like the Voodoo
Voodoo Graphics came out in 1995, we had commercial GPUs since early 1980s. Also it's funny that you believe it was "full force" parallel because specifically Voodoo (SST-1) drew a single pixel per clock (and had no geometry processing) so it was not parallel at all, even inside a poly. This statement shows your level of expertise though.
How bizarrely hostile. So weird.
> Voodoo Graphics came out in 1995, we had commercial GPUs since early 1980s.
I mean, if you think you're going to get me in a gotcha, you should know that the first thing we considered a "GPU" came out three years after the Voodoo. The GeForce 256.
But since we're talking about gaming, the first real 3D accelerator in that market was the 3dfx Voodoo, and it revolutionized gaming because even though we had graphics cards, their abilities were laughably limited (blitting was a big feature).
> so it was not parallel at all
You, uh, really should look this up. Are you consulting an LLM or something, because it's like someone who has no idea what they're talking about just randomly saying stuff. PS3! AVX-512!
"drew a single pixel" is a funny comment that kind of gives away the game. Do you have any idea what is involved in drawing "a single pixel"? This is rhetorical, because you seem to have no idea at all.
I'm just going to ignore you, but Christ you know you don't have to double down on this stuff.