Four years ago Dylan Barriea video game developer and hardware enthusiast, decided to embark on an epic undertaking:create a working GPU from scratch in free time.
A commitment that Barrie himself defined as “hellish”, but that later four years brought to completion by finally “giving birth” Fury GPU. Behind the one who It looks like a video card from the 90s there is a project based on a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAplaced on a custom PCB with PCIe interface.
If the look reminds us of video cards like the GeForce 4 or the Radeon 8500, the hardware capabilities of FuryGPU also wink back to times gone by: the video card It supports hardware capabilities equivalent to a “high-end” graphics card from the mid-1990swith a full stack of software and drivers for modern versions of Windows.
The GPU can render games from that era at playable frame rates in real time. For example, FuryGPU plays Quakes– yes, the one from 1996 – with a solid frame rate at 720p that improves optimization after optimization, from the 44 fps recorded in the Timedemo to the stable 60 fps obtained later.
