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Back in the early days 3D graphics accelerators, things were a bit more interesting than today. We had a lot more vendors, hardware designs were wildly different and pretty much every vendor also had it’s own API. Sadly I gave/threw away most of my old graphics accelerator but started collecting them again. Here is (growing) list of the ones I own.

ELSA Victory 3D (S3 ViRGE)

• 🗓️ Released in 1996
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: S3D (Proprietary), DirectX 3, OpenGL (unofficial)

A-Trend Helios 3D (3Dfx Vodoo)

• 🗓️ Released in 1996
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: Glide (Proprietary), DirectX 5, MiniGK (Small subset of OpenGL)

QDI V2200 Legend (Rendition Vérité V2200)

• 🗓️ Released in 1997
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: RRedline (Proprietary), OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 5

Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (3Dlabs Permedia 2)

• 🗓️ Released in 1997
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 6

ATI Rage PRO Turbo

• 🗓️ Released in 1997
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 6

ELSA Victory Erazor (NVidia RIVA128)

• 🗓️ Released in 1998
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 1.0, DirectX 5

Matrox G200

• 🗓️ Released in 1998
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 6

Matrox G450 Dual Head (G450)

• 🗓️ Released in 2000
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 6

Hercules Prophet 9700 (ATI Radeon 9700)

• 🗓️ Released in 2002
• 🛠️ Supported APIs: OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 9

MIA

Here is a list of GPUs that I remember owning at some point (and no longer do):

• Kyro II (Hercules)
• Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
• Geforce 256 (ELSA)
• Riva TNT
• Riva TNT2