The Orchid Righteous 3D, announced in 1996, was the first consumer graphics card based on 3Dfx technology, retailing for $299. Despite early yield issues with 3Dfx chips, it beat the competition to market, delivering arcade-quality graphics to PCs. The card used the proprietary Glide API and had no 2D capability, functioning
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