There was once a time when 3dfx ruled the 3D accelerator market, but...

The 3D Prophet II GTS 64Mb follows on a tradition in glorious form

The Hercules name is synonymous with quality and reliability, as well as blue-coloured graphics cards. Based around NVIDIA's new budget graphics chipset, the GeForce2 Titanium, the Hercules 3D Prophet II Titanium is Guillemot's latest offering, and it too is blue in colour.

There is quite simply no holding nVidia back. Hot on the heels of the top-performance GeForce2 GTS chipset, with its capacity for up to 64Mb of fast DDR...

The Hercules branding has been associated with prestige quality and high performance since the release of the HGC display adaptor in 1982. More recently, the same applied to the Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra - undeniably the quickest 3D card of its time, though notoriously difficult to get hold of.

The GeForce3 chip is quite an incredible thing.

Back in September Hercules impressed us all by blowing away the competition in our 3D graphics card Labs..

Fastest 2D/3D graphics card

In the beginning 3dfx was the king of the 3D accelerator market with its Voodoo and Voodoo2 chipsets...

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Impressive performance at a nice price

VideoLogic is a name few people would now instantly associate with graphics accelerators. In fact, its parent company, Imagination Technologies, was present at the birth of the PC 3D accelerator field in June 1996 with its PowerVR card.

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