I remember the progress from CGA to EGA; there was that odd bridge of Tandy 16 color; and then, boom, VGA, which looked so magical compared to what came before. Even when I did gray scale VGA on my IBM PS/2 50z it all just felt like a big jump had been finally taken.
Then down the road came 3dfx with Voodoo and that to me was the next great leap forward. Each iteration has been leading to ray tracing which is the next great leap.
Now just for screen tech to become as affordable as the cards that can drive them, the LG OLED we have is stunning but that is "just" 4K.
Weeeeell...the first 'great leap forward' was the Verite V1000 and vQuake a couple of months before the Voodoo 1. Real 3D looking Quake with good frame rates! A bunch of us jumped on that bandwagon...and prolly shouldn't have. The V1000 was great for vQuake, much less so for anything else. By the next Xmas, we all had Voodoos.
Then down the road came 3dfx with Voodoo and that to me was the next great leap forward. Each iteration has been leading to ray tracing which is the next great leap.
Now just for screen tech to become as affordable as the cards that can drive them, the LG OLED we have is stunning but that is "just" 4K.
just for fun, the story of 3dfx voodoo https://fabiensanglard.net/3dfx_sst1/index.html