alt Hacker NewsYep, came here to say the same thing. I still remember Carmack presenting Doom3 with the GF3 at the Macworld Expo (Feb 2001) and recall him referring to it as the first true GPU.
Funny, though, that when Doom3 was actually released in 2004 a GF3 wouldn't come anywhere close to playing it at an acceptable framerate (a GeForce 6800 was what you wanted for it in those days).
> I still remember Carmack presenting Doom3 with the GF3 at the Macworld Expo (Feb 2001)
Initial trailers of games when they were announced, and the year they launched had like 3 years between them when much HW development progress happened.
Max Payne also was first shown at E3 in 1997 but launched in 2001.