Wasnt December 1995 Comdex premiere still a closed door dont look behind the curtain $80K SGI box showcasing what the chip will do? with actual boards shipping a year later starting October 1996. Flood began after 1997 ram price collapse dropping initial Voodoo1 $299 price down to $199.

Virge announced same 1995 Comdex, shipping announced at May 1996 E3 $199 2MB cards https://web.archive.org/web/19961220000918/http://www.diamon...

Mistake shipped May-August 1996.

Both failures were being benchmarked in the press in August 1996 https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video/c...