2025-01-01 16:18:13
The GeForce 256 is only the first GPU by Nvidia's own definition of a GPU, which is "a single chip with hardware T&L, clipping and a polygon rate of 10M poly/s" The 1996 SGI RCP, GPU of the N64, has all of these but a lower polygon rate of ~900K poly/s arguably was the first [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(11-1-6) Author
2025-01-01 16:57:46
3dfx's first graphics card, the Voodoo Graphics, was released in November 1996. The first card to use the Voodoo chip was Orchid Technology's Righteous 3D, which was released on October 7, 1996. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(26-0-10) Author
2025-01-01 19:44:40
Jensen Huang, coined the term graphics processing unit for the launch of the GeForce 256 graphics card in 1999. Therefore, of course the definition belongs to nVidia. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-1-2) Author
2025-01-02 00:58:04
Before nvidia created the GPU 3dfx card and others where known as video card NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author