3Dfx Voodoo modded with 12 MB of RAM and two texture mappers — reveals how revolutionary GPU was way ahead of its time

Readers entering their fourth decade on this planet might remember the name “3Dfx Voodoo”, the graphics card responsible for kickstarting the 3D gaming revolution. Thirty years down the line, YouTuber PixelPipes revisits this revolutionary piece of hardware as a modded version loaded with 12 MB of VRAM (up from 4 MB) and an extra texture mapping unit — courtesy of Romanian hardware reverse-engineer “sdz” (SDZ).

PixelPipes’ video goes into detail about how the installed mods massively improve the…