[Ailuros]

IMG was called if I recall correctly Videologic in the past; then they changed it somewhere down the line to IMG and named their product division "Videologic:. Nowadays their product division is named PURE digital; they don't make GPUs or sound cards anymore.

It's been a long time and it could very well be that Elan was actually build and sold through Vidoelogic; but it must had been developed by their graphics division PowerVR.

In any case I recall Simon mentioning that the platform was quite CPU bound, hence the quoted numbers for Elan could had been higher with a stronger CPU.

[Simon F]

Originally Posted by Ailuros

I recall PowerVR having a T&L unit in those dual-chip arcade boards named ELAN. If memory serves well, I think it was capable of 10M Tris/s with a high number of lights for its time and a quite CPU bound platform.

I don't think it would matter now to say that the processing rate was one (vertex,"light") calculation per clock assuming 6 or more lights per vertex. A "light" could do things other than just lighting.

Originally Posted by Ailuros

In any case I recall Simon mentioning that the platform was quite CPU bound, hence the quoted numbers for Elan could had been higher with a stronger CPU.

I don't recall that.

Naomi 1 was quite CPU limited as it did all the T&L on the CPU. I suspect that Naomi II, where much of this was offloaded to Elan, would not have been. IIRC, elan (and the CLX2s) could be clocked much faster but they shared the same clock as the SH4 which limited the system to 100MHz.

[Simon82]

Anyway the first linked images are obviously fake.

[no-X]

No-one of these images of 3Dfx boards is fake. There are even more exotic voodoo-based products, e.g. Voodoo Graphics-based 3TMU / SLI / RGSS-capable Primary Image boards:

[Rys]

To add to that, I've got a pair of 3dfx boards with four NVIDIA NV4s on