Time's up, this legendary graphics card just sold for $15,000 on eBay

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Update: The legendary Voodoo 5 6000 has just been sold on eBay for $15,000(opens in new tab). The sought after collector's item ended up with 65 bids over its auction run, and the winner walked away with the card for less than I had initially expected considering the interest in the card. 

Hey, that's eBay for you, and no doubt $15,000 is still a mountain of cash for any collector to spend on a single piece of GPU history.

Original story: Take a look at this graphics card artefact. No, not a visual artefact, this is a prime piece of graphics card history, a Voodoo 5 6000, and it's on sale on eBay. This is the last graphics card out of 3dfx Interactive, a company once famed for ruling the graphics industry. Sadly the company crumbled before this GPU ever made it to market, and very few of these cards were ever produced as prototypes.

This exact listing is for a Voodoo 5 6000 revision 3700A, which makes it one of the last to be manufactured before the whole prototyping project was shuttered entirely. That also means it's one of the few Voodoo models with most of the bugs squashed. It was built on a 250nm  process, a far cry from the 7nm process nodes largely used for today's best graphics cards(opens in new tab).

The card is currently selling for $13,200(opens in new tab) (via Sweclockers(opens in new tab)), but that figure has been steadily increasing with every day. There's still five days left for the listing, too, so expect it to fetch a small fortune by the end of the auction. After all, it's a highly sought after prize for collectors.

«I have come to the conclusion that this card just isn't the holy grail for me and that I have other pieces in my vintage hardware collection that simply mean more to me and will always