When Voodoo Came to NVIDIA: The 3dfx Deal That Ended an Era

NVIDIA did not turn Voodoo into GeForce. Its 2001 3dfx asset purchase closed a rival's chapter while preserving part of its technology and names. Here is what actually happened.

NVIDIA did not turn Voodoo into GeForce. Its 2001 3dfx asset purchase closed a rival's chapter while preserving part of its technology and names. Here is what actually happened.

The GeForce News feed stayed silent for a second straight week, so the only real GeForce story came off the corporate blog: August's GeForce NOW lineup and a DLSS 4.5 deadline that just opened.

Owners report Lenovo's N3CN42WW BIOS leaving first-generation Legion Go handhelds unbootable, NVIDIA becomes the fourth premier sponsor of LVFS, and Proton 11.0-2 lands as a release candidate.

Week ending August 3: the GeForce channel stayed quiet after 610.88, so NVIDIA's news came from the corporate blog instead, from cloud streaming to the CPU it uses to design its own chips.

The RTX 50 series pairs a real feature jump, GDDR7, PCIe 5.0, DisplayPort 2.1, and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, with a node that did not change and a launch that went sideways on connectors and missing ROPs. This guide maps the whole Blackwell stack and what each name actually buys.

A spec sheet answers fewer questions than it looks like it does. CUDA core counts do not compare across generations, a narrow bus is not always a weakness, and the same name can hide different silicon. Here is how to read NVIDIA GPU specs so the numbers stop misleading you.

The first edition of a weekly digest of NVIDIA's own GeForce announcements. This one catches up on July 2026: three R610 drivers, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction due in August, the RTX Spark mini-workstation, and NVIDIA App capture upgrades, with every claim linked back to NVIDIA's own post and separated into shipped now versus promised later.

A reported NVIDIA price increase covers GPU and memory kits using both GDDR7 and GDDR6, but the affected cards, regions and retail impact remain unknown.

AMD's MI455X and 72-GPU Helios rack finally challenge NVIDIA at the system level, but peak specifications are only the start of the comparison.

The rumor mill says NVIDIA's RTX 50 Super refresh is back on track, off again, and due anywhere from late 2026 to CES 2027, while AMD's board partners quietly point to a 2027 RDNA 5 launch and nothing new before it. Here is every major claim, who made it, when, and how much weight it deserves.