NVidia should bring back 3DFX branding.

[VirtualLarry]

Intel has their Core, Pentium, and Celeron, for consumer, and Xeon for professional.

NVidia only has GeForce (consumer) and Quadro (professional) and Tesla (HPC).

I think NV could take even more market-share, by introducing a budget-minded consumer-oriented brand, and I think that they should bring back 3DFX.

What do you all think of that?

 

[monstercameron]

what is 3dfx? I know what is it but how is drudging up an ancient brand any good?

 

[master_shake_]

A Lil bit of nostalgia...

I'd like a 3dfx card and a LAN party board

 

[Exophase]

"3dfx" was a company name not a brand name, if they want to bring back a 3dfx brand they could call something Voodoo. But I'd have to question what crowd they're really trying to appeal to with that.

 

[Ravynmagi]

I don't think more branding is needed. And Intel has too much branding and could use to kill off one or two of them at least.

 

[janii]

They had other names in the past for their products and they will have new ones down the line.
Nvidia/geforce voodoo certainly has some mystical flair

 

[Sable]

So dumb

 

[f1sherman]

Intel has their Core, Pentium, and Celeron, for consumer, and Xeon for professional.

NVidia only has GeForce (consumer) and Quadro (professional) and Tesla (HPC).

I think NV could take even more market-share, by introducing a budget-minded consumer-oriented brand, and I think that they should bring back 3DFX.

What do you all think of that?

Bring in couple of old geezers by opening an old wound?

SOUNDS LIKE A PERFECT PLAN

 

[Leyawiin]

If they were going to take advantage of "Voodoo" branding they should have done it 10+ years ago. I do think that was kind of a waste of buying the rights (not using it). It had a certain bad-assed cachet to it.

 

[Larnz]

While I loved 3dfx and their Voodoo brand I don't think Nvidia should use the names from a company they killed.

However I would like to see them release a new TNT card, I am sick of the GeForce name to be honest its just been GeForce + number for like 15 years or so now? Mind you same boat with Radeon and changing from such well known card brands would be risky, but I agree its very boring.

 

[RaulF]

Why?

Nvidia has no problems selling cards. Let it die.

 

[Mopetar]

I agree with some of the others. This would be pointless and only add confusion.

 

[Bateluer]

I could have seen an advantage to Nvidia using the Voodoo brand shortly after they bought it, but today? Today it would be meh. Younger games today don't even know who 3Dfx was or what a Voodoo card did. Even for gamers old enough to remember, its been a decade. Not much impact to the name these days.

Nvidia has no problems selling its Geforce branded cards either.

 

[PliotronX]

Awww yeah!

 

[bakalu]

i like Voodoo name

 

[Deders]

They probably don't want the curse that the FX branding brought them last time

 

[SPBHM]

they did,

but seriously, there is no point, 3dfx doesn't mean anything for most people today, and almost nothing from 3dfx was used by Nvidia, even reviving "TNT" would make more sense.

 

[SirPauly]

nVidia used the Sli branding!

 

[NTMBK]

Awww yeah!

Some things never change

 

[SPBHM]

nVidia used the Sli branding!

the only thing basically, because nvidia had no branding for multi gpu and 3dfx SLI was not so distant in the past in 2004 (like "Voodoo" is now), and 3dfx SLI = scanline interleaved, nvidia SLI = scalable link interface

don't get me wrong, I love the 3dfx stuff, but if Nvidia was feeling nostalgic I would rather see them using TnT than 3dfx or Voodoo.

 

[Mem]

Intel has their Core, Pentium, and Celeron, for consumer, and Xeon for professional.

NVidia only has GeForce (consumer) and Quadro (professional) and Tesla (HPC).

I think NV could take even more market-share, by introducing a budget-minded consumer-oriented brand, and I think that they should bring back 3DFX.

What do you all think of that?

Nope,I would like to see more competition in the GPU market however,now it really is only a two horse race ie Nvidia and AMD, very old days you had more competition,would be great if we had say Matrox back with some good GPUs,but we know that will never happen.

 

[greenhawk]

if Nvidia was feeling nostalgic I would rather see them using TnT than 3dfx or Voodoo.

depends on how it was done. If the TnT came back, then I would hope the "TnT2 m64" did not.


customer sees TnT2 m64 card
customer:"YES!!!, a cheap TnT2 card".
/buys and gets home, performs crappy

customer complains about the card.
customer gets informed that it is a TnT2 m64, not a TnT2.

in todays terms, it might be something like getting a GTX 780, but find it is actually a GTX760 in a GTX780 cooler design / artwork.

 

[blackened23]

Nvidia has a strong brand and recognition, changing at this point would be pretty silly.

Now I loved 3dfx back in the day, let's face facts: the voodoo 1/2 were groundbreaking products (especially V1). The V1 and especially GLquake were so far above and beyond software rendering (or other 3d cards) at the time that it was truly amazing. I don't think that amazing feeling has ever been replicated, as compared to seeing GLQuake for the first time after running software rendered quake. It was jaw dropping. Nothing has come close to that quantum jump and jaw drop factor since IMO.

However, the brand is long dead and most newer PC users wouldn't even recognize it. Nostalgia only goes so far. That's aside from the fact that NV is very well known with a well established brand now.

 

[Atreidin]

Just let 3dfx die. Maybe if they revived Glide then it would feel better to use old 3dfx names but that would open a whole nother can of worms. I'd rather they bring back their own old names instead, but Riva is lame and TNT wouldn't make much sense nowadays since it's original meaning (TwiN Texel) doesn't really apply anymore; they've advanced just a smidgen beyond that. Although they could repurpose the letters of TNT to mean something else, or just ignore any meaning at all, since it doesn't matter.

 

[Blitzvogel]

90's Marketing was awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw8im6Czac8