[carroccio]

3dfx with vga passthrough were the real life changers thanks to advanced texture rendering. Still poly were not anti-aliased. It was a real paradigm change and captured a majority (>80%) of the market. If you remember the game Turok with and without Voodoo you lived that days :)

[MrBuddyCasino]

That was a huge improvement, unmatched by anything that came after. Maybe the move to multi-core cpus comes close.