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Совсем запутался, когда поступила в продажу видеокарта 3Dlabs Permedia (первая)??

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в 96м

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Хотелось бы точнее.

Сейчас остановился на дате - Aug. 5, 1996

Придется обновлять таблицу...

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были доступны в первом квартале

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https://www.thefreelibrary.com...a018079637
"AN JOSE, Calif.--(******* WIRE)--March 11, 1996--3Dlabs® Inc. today announced immediate availability of the GLINT® Delta™ 3D Geometry Pipeline Processor, designed as a companion chip to the company's award-winning GLINT and PERMEDIA™ 3D rasterization chips.

By off-loading up to 70% of the 3D geometry processing load into dedicated hardware, GLINT Delta can increase the already significant performance of GLINT-based accelerator boards by a further factor of three.

When used on a high-performance PC, using a Pentium Pro processor, GLINT Delta-based designs have been measured to deliver over 750K polygons per second via OpenGL, in many cases outperforming 3D workstations costing several times more. For intensive 3D graphics applications, GLINT Delta significantly improves overall system performance by freeing the CPU from demanding 3D pipeline calculations — providing more processor time for application level processing.

GLINT Delta provides 100MFlops of hard-wired processing power to accelerate some of the most compute-intensive parts of 3D geometry calculations.

The introduction of GLINT Delta makes 3Dlabs the only chip vendor to provide silicon solutions for both the geometry and rasterization sections of the 3D pipeline. GLINT Delta is shipping in volume immediately and is priced under $50 in quantities of 10K/month. Boards and systems using GLINT Delta are now shipping from select 3Dlabs customers.

Delta Information "

GLINT® Delta™ 3D Geometry Pipeline Processor, designed as a companion chip



Вероятнее всего Август (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/3Dlabs+Ships+Permedia+Pervasive+3D+Processor%3B+Fast+2D,+VGA,+Video+and...-a018549414)
"NEW ORLEANS--(******* WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--3Dlabs® Inc. (San Jose, CA) today announced immediate availability of its second-generation low-cost 3D processor - Permedia®.

Permedia is the first Pervasive 3D processor to integrate all the pixel processing needs of a high-performance 3D PC into a single low-cost device and Permedia is shipping immediately in high-volume.

Permedia is the first, fully-integrated single-chip 3D processor that combines mainstream, no-compromise 2D functionality and performance with stunning second-generation 3D graphics.

Permedia-based boards provide fast SVGA, 64-bit 2D windows acceleration delivering over 30 million Winmarks, 30 frames-per-second video playback, and over 30 million texture-mapped, bilinear-filtered 3D pixels/second through Direct3D™, and yet can cost under $195.

Permedia is designed to provide optimal acceleration through standard APIs such as Direct3D. No proprietary libraries or coding are necessary to achieve smooth, textured, full-screen 3D gameplay and animations at well over 30Hz. As well as seamlessly accelerating the growing number of Direct3D titles and applications, 3Dlabs has an exclusive CGL license from Creative Labs that enables any Permedia board to run 3D Blaster® titles.

Many industry observers believe that 3D graphics will truly enter the PC mainstream when end-users are able to actively create and modify 3D information using powerful, low-cost authoring tools. "



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https://www.hotchips.org/wp-co...C8.9.1.pdf
вторая станица

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Рекламный буклет датирован Августом 1996.


Вопрос, какой можно было купить у нас компьютер в первой половине 1997 за 500-600$?

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Только ни GLINT ни Permedia никогда не занимали такую позицию как Voodoo
они стояли в узкоспециализированных картах поддержки CAD и т.п.
3D для масс была Permedia 2 но насколько помню TI ее все никак произвести не могла и слишком поздно она вышла

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https://books.google.ru/books?...mp;f=false

В 1997 продавалась для домашнего использования, а до этого нигде не упоминается как готовое изделие, поэтому не совсем понятно какую дату указывать
Маловероятно, что она появилась раньше выпуска Directx2, ибо какой толк от неё.
Opengl игры тоже в пролете.
"GLQuake. GLQuake is a source port of Quake that uses the OpenGL graphics library, and was released on January 22, 1997. It was officially made by Id Software, but is not supported by them. "

драйвер предположительно от PowerColor C3000 и скорее всего это самый первый драйвер для Windows95