A 2005 Dual-GPU Oddity: The Tale of 3DLabs and the Realizm 800 #GPUJune2

#gpujune #gpujune2 #graphicscard Just as 3dfx and Matrox once competed against ATi and NVIDIA, so too did 3DLabs. What began as an advanced graphics company in the 1980s would eventually ship a line of weak, value-oriented consumer cards, leading to a refocusing on professional products before leaving the graphics card market entirely. Their last card would be the dual-VPU Wildcat Realizm 800. So what happened? Downloads: 3DLabs Realizm 800 Driver CD ISO: https://archive.org/details/3-dlabs-r... 3DLabs Realizm 800 Latest Drivers: https://archive.org/details/3dlabs-wi... 3DLabs Realizm 800 vBIOS: https://archive.org/details/3dlabs_re... Sources for this video: https://www.anandtech.com/print/1603 https://www.anandtech.com/show/1651 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/... https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/int... https://www.eetimes.com/singapores-cr... https://www.postmagazine.com/Publicat... https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/du...   / 1296.  . https://vintage3d.org/3dlabs.php https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/... https://web.archive.org/web/201403051... https://web.archive.org/web/200602112... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Dlabs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3qo4... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EA9x... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMllc... Music used in this video: "Trouble" by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena - YouTube Audio Library "Riding" by Silent Partner - YouTube Audio Library "Cold Funk" by Kevin MacLeod - YouTube Audio Library "Swimming" by Le Gang - YouTube Audio Library "Twin Shine" by Silent Partner - YouTube Audio Library YouTube Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:20 The Origins of 3DLabs 1:13 3DLabs and the Permedia 2:35 The Beginning of the End 3:05 The Realizm 800 - Unboxing and Technical Specifications 4:44 Driver Menu 5:29 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Far Cry and Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 5:56 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault 8:28 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Doom 3 High 10:19 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Doom 3 Low 11:19 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Sid Meier's Pirates! 12:17 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - YouTube Playback 12:30 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Slayer's Testaments 13:12 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Quake III, Unreal, Half-Life 2 13:35 Realizm 800 Benchmarks - Professional Software 14:20 Conclusion - Retrospective on 3DLabs and the Realizm 800