Tales of Weird Stuff | $1,200 GPU from 2002 - Can it run Doom 3? @TalesofWeirdStuff | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
It's #GPUJune 2024! Released in late 2002 at a similar time as the Radeon 9700 and the Geforce FX, the top of the line 3Dlabs P10 architecture card cost $1,200. Let's compare the architecture of the 3Dlabs parts with its contemporaries, and, naturally, let's see if it can run Doom 3.

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00:00 Intro
00:44 Previous GPU generation
04:20 Shader model 2.0 generation
07:38 Visual Processing Unit
11:25 VP990 Pro Unboxing
13:22 The Good
20:46 The Bad
26:24 The Ugly
31:43 The Weird
37:56 WindowsXP
39:54 Doom3
42:29 Closing words

OpenGL extension registry:

registry.khronos.org/OpenGL/index_gl.php

3Dlabs P9 / P10 documentation:

vgamuseum.info/images/doc/3dlabs/p10/p9.p10.ao.pdf