This Diamond Viper V330 uses an nVidia RIVA 128 chipset. The RIVA 128 (NV3) was released in late 1997 as successor of the NV1 and combined 2D and 3D in one chip. RIVA stands for Real-time Interactive Video and Animation accelerator.

In end of 1997, 3Dfx already established a name in the 3D market with the Voodoo Graphics card. This Direct3D 5.0-capable card from nVidia was directly compared with the Voodoo Graphics. Performance, image quality and drivers were discussed. As far as I'm aware of the Voodoo Graphics was more popular as no-one in my area started talking about nVidia until the Riva TNT made its debut.