alt Hacker NewsWhat about the NV1? It was marketed as a "3D accelerator" but was a GPU nonetheless.
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xnx • today at 4:25 PM
Or the Riva 128 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_128
What about the NV1? It was marketed as a "3D accelerator" but was a GPU nonetheless.
Or the Riva 128 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_128
To the best of my recollection, the GeForce 256 was the first one that was marketed as a “GPU” and began to popularize that term in the industry.
Specifically because it did transformation and lighting calcs in (non-programmable until GeForce 3) hardware, instead of in software on the main CPU.
Yes, NVIDIA made 3D accelerators before the GeForce line. I have many of them in my collection. But (IIRC) it did not market them as “GPUs”. That term wasn’t really used yet.