San Jose, CA - April 7, 1999 - Packard Bell, Europe's leading Home PC manufacturer, today announced it will ship in May selected models of its MultiMedia PC line with Voodoo3, the new high-performance 3D and 2D graphics accelerator from 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. (NASDAQ TDFX). Targeted at family users throughout Europe, the Packard Bell MultiMedia PC line is a user-friendly and complete PC, featuring more than 30 best selling software titles and unique Internet tools for an easy, quick, cost effective and advanced Web surfing experience. The Packard Bell MultiMedia line caters for education, entertainment and productivity, addressing the needs of family users, whether adult, child or teenager.

To provide its customers with an even more exciting and unique gaming experience, Packard Bell in mid-May will begin integrating 3Dfx Interactive's advanced Voodoo3 2000 acceleration technology onto the motherboard of selected models in the MultiMedia line. The Voodoo3 graphics accelerator is capable of generating up to 6 million triangles and 286 Megatexels per second at resolutions of up to 2,046 by 1,536 pixels.

"With Voodoo3, Packard Bell's MultiMedia PCs promise to deliver the most exciting entertainment and media-rich experiences to consumers throughout Europe," said Greg Ballard, president and CEO of 3Dfx Interactive. "We are delighted to extend our relationship with Packard Bell by helping one of Europe's PC leaders add a new dimension to home computing with Voodoo3."

"Packard Bell firmly believes that computer manufacturers should learn from their customers. By listening to our users, we learned that they spend a lot of time using their PC to enjoy 3D video games. In bundling the industry's leading acceleration technology, we enable our users to get the most of our unique set of best-selling games titles. Voodoo3 is clearly at the forefront of 3D technology, which makes it the ideal choice for our latest range of PCs," said Pascal Cagni, vice president, Consumer Division, Packard Bell NEC Europe. "Based on the enormous success of our Platinum PC systems enhanced with Voodoo2 technology, we expect these new Voodoo3-powered PCs will be immensely popular with consumers."

A typical configuration, such as the Multimedia 450 V3, will include a Pentium PIII 450 processor, 64Mb RAM, an 8.4Gb hard disk, sound card, speakers, 15-inch monitor and V90 modem as well as the Voodoo3 graphics accelerator. Each system will incorporate Voodoo3 2000 technology as a standard feature. With support for ultra-high resolution monitors, Voodoo3 2000 features a 300MHz RAMDAC and 8MB of SDRAM (143MHz). The new accelerator also includes such advanced features as single-pass single-cycle multi-texturing for bump mapping and trilinear mip-mapping, dual 32-bit internal rendering, per-pixel mip-mapping, sub-pixel and sub-texel correction, 8-bit palletized textures, programmable exponential fog tables, Gouraud shading, a full 128-bit 2D accelerator, DVD hardware assist, and support for DirectX®, Glide® and OpenGL®.

Today's news follows Packard Bell's announcement in October 1998 that it would bundle 3Dfx Voodoo2 acceleration technology in select models of its Packard Bell Platinum PC line. 3Dfx Voodoo graphics is becoming a significant force in entertainment technology due in large part to the company's strategic OEM relationships with a growing list of leading PC manufacturers. Through its PC OEM partners and board manufacturers, 3Dfx Interactive has shipped more than 4 million products worldwide.

About Packard Bell

Packard Bell is the Consumer Division of Packard Bell NEC Europe. In 1998, Packard Bell Europe was the leader of the Home market, with a 11.4 percent market share (source Dataquest). The company manufactures and distributes personal computers specially designed for the Home user, offering ease of use, a broad range of software, innovative design and the latest technology. The Packard Bell brand possesses the largest share of Europe's PC retail market with an 17.3 percent market share in 1998 (source Dataquest) and its products are sold in more than 2,500 European cities. Visit the company on the Web at http://www.packardbell-europe.com.

About 3dfx Interactive

3dfx Interactive develops high-performance, cost-effective 3D media processors, software and related technology that are designed to enable a highly immersive, interactive and realistic 3D experience across interactive electronic entertainment platforms - personal computers, coin-operated arcade systems and location-based entertainment. Current 3dfx Interactive products include the Voodoo family of accelerator chip sets, Voodoo2, Voodoo Graphics®, Voodoo Banshee and the new Voodoo3. Visit the company on the Web at http://www.3dfx.com/.