To be honest, in Qin Feng's heart, it is true that Nvidia is the most powerful, ATI is second, and Voodoo (Voodoo) is third.

But at the moment, of course, the same cannot be said.

"I'm really sorry, but there are differences in national culture. In our Huaxia, the more important it is, the more it comes last. Qin Feng hurriedly explained.

There is no better excuse than this one.

Sure enough, such an explanation softened the faces of the three of them.

"Three, now, I just want to talk to you about cooperation!" Qin Feng said very seriously, "Today, your company's Voodoo (Voodoo) graphics card is the most powerful 3D graphics card in the computer market, but it is also facing crises and challenges. And our company is also facing a strong win-tel alliance!"

The three of them didn't say anything, but looked at Qin Feng. For Qin Feng to be so alarmist, they wanted to know what Qin Feng could say.

Qin Feng saw that the three of them did not leave, but stayed, and knew that there was a play.

In any case, at least the person did not leave, so he gave himself a chance.

"First of all, your company's graphics card is very poor at 2D performance development!" Qin Feng said.

The three nodded. They have no objection to this. After all, their Voodoo graphics card is specifically for 3D games, and the 2D performance is a little worse, so it's just a little worse.

At this point, there is no way. Fortunately, Voodoo 2 is also enhanced in 2D, although it is not top-notch, but it is much better than the first generation. It can only be said that it is worse than ATI's, but it doesn't have to be worse than other brands.

"Of course, in terms of 2D, this is easy to catch up, and the future of computer games is still in 3D!" Qin Feng said.

The three nodded. If Qin Feng wanted to say that 2D was important, then they would just brush their sleeves and leave.

"Let's talk about 3D, I believe the three seniors should know that Microsoft's win98 system is about to be released!" Qin Feng said.

When the three of them heard Microsoft's name, a hint of disgust appeared on their faces.

Qin Feng took a look at it and knew that there was more drama.

"And Microsoft has just launched a version with NVIDIA, you should also know it!" Qin Feng said.

Rose nodded.

Can they not know? They really don't have a good impression of Microsoft. It's too overbearing. Since the launch of win95, Microsoft has become more and more domineering. Leverage their strong dominance in the operating system market to demand that major vendors work together to develop the DirectX standard.

Is this standard good? Naturally, it is good. A common hardware driver standard for all involved, so that game developers do not have to write different drivers for each brand of hardware, and it also reduces the complexity of installing and setting up hardware.

It can be said that this standard is very good. But that's where the problem comes in, and it's something Microsoft introduced. Once there is a global response, then all the relevant hardware companies, whether they are game companies, must rely on this platform to develop.

While the beneficiaries are global, the biggest beneficiary is Microsoft. With this platform, Microsoft will have no rivals in the desktop system in the future. Nor is it possible for anyone to challenge Microsoft.

In this case, everyone will have to look at Microsoft's face in the future.

That's something they don't want at 3DFX.

The three founders of them jumped out of the company and started their own businesses from positions with annual salaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars, just for that freedom.

So, they don't compromise. They are the only display chip company that is not open to Microsoft's DirectX.

They have their pride.

"But Nvidia and Microsoft have partnered, and Nvidia will be your company's strongest rival. Qin Feng said.

"Nvidia?" the three of them twitched.

As far as Nvidia is concerned, how can it be their opponent.

ati is pretty much the same.

Qin Feng smiled.

"I have an internal information here, Nvidia will launch an epoch-making 3D graphics card within the year, called TNT!" Qin Feng said, "If my information is not wrong, TNT's technical indicators should be 0.35 micron core process, 90MHz core frequency, 8M video memory, 110MHz video memory frequency, as for its pixel fill rate, it has reached an astonishing 180M per second." Qin Feng said slowly.

When TNT was born, just like its name, it blew up the world.

It directly became the hottest graphics card in the world that year, and directly drove Voodoo (voodoo) off the altar.

Because, today's most popular Voodoo (voodoo) graphics card, in other aspects of the same, the pixel fill rate is only 90M per second.

It can be said that in terms of pixel fill rate, Nvidia's TNT has directly doubled.

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels rendered by a graphics processing unit per second, measured in mpixel/s (megapixels per second) or GPIXEL/s (billion pixels per second), and is the most commonly used metric to measure the pixel processing performance of the current graphics card. The graphics card's render pipeline is an important part of the graphics core, which is a specialized set of channels in the graphics that are responsible for coloring the graphics. The more render pipelines there are, the higher the frequency of each set of pipelines (generally the core frequency of the graphics card), the higher the fill rate of the drawn graphics card, and the higher the performance of the graphics card, so the performance of the graphics card can be roughly judged from the pixel fill rate of the graphics card.

It can be said that this directly affects the performance of the graphics card. Especially when it comes to 3D processing, the pixel fill rate is crucial.

After hearing this, the three of them were visibly shocked.

If it does come out, then Voodoo 2 is a complete defeat. Even Voodoo 3 in their development is not as good as TNT in terms of pixel fill rate alone. Voodoo 3, on the other hand, is scheduled to be launched in the middle of next year.

That's a big gap.

"Qin Feng, how could you possibly know about Nvidia's internal secrets?" Ross couldn't believe it.

Qin Feng smiled.

He naturally didn't know, but as one of the thousands of game fans who admired TNT and wanted to ask for a piece of it, he knew everything about the performance of the subsequent generations of Nvidia.

No way, all kinds of media reports back then frantically reported on the performance of NVIDIA's graphics cards. And Nvidia has not been disappointed by fans, its development speed is far beyond Moore's Law, and its performance has been improved in less than 18 months, doubling and reducing the price by half.

That's why Qin Feng went to find NVIDIA. But NVIDIA, which really masters the core technology, does not bird itself, or rather, Nvidia directly hugged the big tree of Microsoft, so it really doesn't need to cooperate with Qin Feng.

"If that's the case, we're going to be in trouble!" said Ross, frowning.

"No, it's not just trouble, it's a crisis!" Qin Feng kept attacking, "Because, my source, the price of TNT will most likely not exceed $200!"

No more than $200?!