1998: RIVA 128ZX
In less than half a year, Nvidia has launched a more advanced 128ZX graphics card to further seize market share.
Nvidia reference RIVA 128ZX
The RIVA 128ZX not only doubles the memory capacity to 8MB, but also adds support for OpenGL technology. NVIDIA's competitor 3Dfx did not launch Voodoo Banshee with 2D/3D processing capability until September 1998.
1999: RIVA TNT2
NVIDIA released a new graphics card at the 1999 Game Developer's Conference Game Developers Conference: Riva TNT. In fact, in 1999, Nvidia released no less than five TNT2 series graphics cards.
Including: TNT2 Ultra, TNT2 M64 Vanta, TNT2 M64 Vanta-16, TNT2 M64, TNT2 Pro, etc.
Based on TNT, TNT2 uses a more advanced manufacturing process, higher core frequency and greater memory capacity.
Nvidia Riva TNT 2
October 1999: Nvidia Geforce 256 (SDR Memory Edition)
NVIDIA released the Geforce 256 SDR graphics card with intergenerational significance at the Intel Developer Conference on October 11, 1999. In order to reflect this leap forward, NVIDIA has upgraded the core code of Geforce 256 directly from the previous NV5 of TNT2 to NV10.
Nvidia Geforce 256
The main meaning of Geforce 256 is reflected in:
1. The T&L technology for hardware processing geometry was first proposed.
2. Support hardware video displacement compensation and MPEG-2 video compression.
3. It is the first graphics card that fully supports DriectX7 technology.
4. NVIDIA first proposed the concept of GPU in GeForce 256.
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