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Video processing has been offloaded in PCs for a long time; the first "3D accelerators" were in the late 90s.

Perhaps I meant to say image processing. The ability to point the camera at something and make sense of the picture (FaceID, AR).

> the first "3D accelerators" were in the late 90s. You forgot about SGI and I'm sure a few others like Intergraph who were doing dedicated 3D video pipelines in hardware starting in the in the 80's.

Actually the Amiga had a GPU for 2D graphics. You need a Amiga desktop model and not a A500. The graphics shop down the road had a dozen Amigas with these cards for rendering and even ray tracing. They were pretty amazing. Even Disney used them for Beauty and the Beast and other animation at the time.

http://www.amigareport.com/ar216/p1-7.html

really? Pretty sure OCS was the same in all Amigas

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