3DLabs GLiNT 300SX (NEC)
3dlabs_glint_300sx_f
3dlabs_glint_300sx_r
3dlabs_glint_300sx_s
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Specifications
| Bus | PCI |
| Memory | 4 MB |
| Memory type | VRAM |
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| Connectors | VGA |
| Year | 1994 |
| Initial price |
Card is for MIPS platform. OpenGL support
Is it correct to say that this was the first 3D Graphics Accelerator on the market?
Did you try to test it with any OpenGL games?
How “rare” is this card anyway?
Yes, this was the world’s first 3D Graphics Accelerator for the PC. BTW, GLiNT is written as ‘GLINT’ as Silicon Grpahics objected to the emphasis on ‘GL’ the name of their graphics library, and Microsoft to the emphasis placed on NT. The Fab was IBM. Two variants of the chip were produced, the 300SX01 and the 300SX02, the latter addressing an issue which affected performance of pixel reads. It would run early OpenGL elementary games but did not have texture mapping acceleration support so this would drop back to software.
I think 1987 Matrox SM-640 was the first 3D Accelerator for PC.