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A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application programming interfaces (APIs) and is released under a free and open-source software license. Graphics device drivers are written for specific hardware to work within a specific operating system ...
The GeForce 256 is the original release in Nvidia's "GeForce" product line.Announced on August 31, 1999 and released on October 11, 1999, the GeForce 256 improves on its predecessor by increasing the number of fixed pixel pipelines, offloading host geometry calculations to a hardware transform and lighting (T&L) engine, and adding hardware motion compensation for MPEG-2 video.
128:64:16 702 1512 2000 11.2 44.9 512 1024 64.0 387 130 March 3, 2009 G92-428-B1 TSMC 65 nm TSMC/UMC 55 nm 738 1836 2000 2200 11.808 47.232 512 1024 64.0 70.4 470 150 Some cards are rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+ $150 ($130 512 MB) GeForce GTX 260 June 16, 2008 GT200-100-A2 65 nm 1400 576 192:64:28 576 1242 1998 16.128 36.864 896 111.9 448 477 182
GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia and marketed for the performance market. As of the GeForce 40 series, there have been eighteen iterations of the design. The first GeForce products were discrete GPUs designed for add-on graphics boards, intended for the high-margin PC gaming market, and later ...
GeForce 6 series. The GeForce 6 series ( codename NV40) is the sixth generation of Nvidia 's GeForce line of graphics processing units. Launched on April 14, 2004, the GeForce 6 family introduced PureVideo post-processing for video, SLI technology, and Shader Model 3.0 support (compliant with Microsoft DirectX 9.0c specification and OpenGL 2.0).
GeForce FX 5200. GeForce FX is an architecture designed with DirectX 7, 8 and 9 software in mind. Its performance for DirectX 7 and 8 was generally equal to ATI's competing products with the mainstream versions of the chips, and somewhat faster in the case of the 5900 and 5950 models, but it is much less competitive across the entire range for software that primarily uses DirectX 9 features.
The GeForce 4 series ( codenames below) refers to the fourth generation of Nvidia 's GeForce line of graphics processing units (GPUs). There are two different GeForce4 families, the high-performance Ti family, and the budget MX family. The MX family spawned a mostly identical GeForce4 Go (NV17M) family for the laptop market.
GPU Nvidia G71. The GeForce 7 series is the seventh generation of Nvidia 's GeForce line of graphics processing units. This was the last series available on AGP cards. A slightly modified GeForce 7-based card (based on the 7800GTX) is present as the RSX Reality Synthesizer, which is present in the PlayStation 3.