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It was, but the Banshee wasn't popular because the 3d side was only half a Voodoo 2, with one texture unit instead of two. It had a higher clock speed to try to compensate but that wasn't enough.

The Voodoo Rush a year before that also had problems - it was a Voodoo 1 chip, but coupled to a slow 2d processor (back when that still mattered, like for just drawing windows or wallpaper in Windows) and had some compatibility problems.

It took until 3dfx's third iteration, with the Voodoo 3, to finally get 2d/3d integration right.