October 11, 1999 · Peripheral
NVIDIA GeForce 256 (1999)
Marketed as the first GPU. Announced August 31, 1999.
17 million transistors on 220 nm with hardware transform and lighting; the DDR version followed December 13, 1999.
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Facts
- Date
- October 11, 1999
- Kind
- Peripheral: Graphics card
- Maker or publisher
- NVIDIA
- Platforms
- DOS, Windows
- Chipset
- NV10
- Onboard memory
- 32 MB SDR (DDR version later)
- Bus
- AGP 4x / PCI
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- NVIDIA RIVA TNT (predecessor, 1998)
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