There are a few of these type of 3dfx commercials..
https://youtu.be/1NWUqIhB04I?si=inIjsNrj-5pz0dX3
izx AnalogOzerik - I was all about the Riva TNT and TNT2 way back when.. loved them.
Original voodoo was late 95, I recall seeing the term gpu around 98. But i do know it was long before nvidia released their geforce 256. I even recall ati try to float the term VPU for visual processing unit shortly after the 256 appeared but...
Yes but the article states that:
"Not only did the 1st-gen Nvidia GeForce 256 introduce us to its now famous GeForce gaming graphics brand, but it also brought the term ‘GPU’ to the gaming PC with it."
Which is utter crap as the term was in use...
The term 'gpu' was floating about long before the geforce, nvidia didn't introduce it at all. That's like apple laying claim to the term 'mhz myth' back when they were doing little vids showing how the p4 long pipeline affected its performance...
My personal favorite?
The nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. It was the first GPU that allowed me to turn everything to max settings in the shader model 3 era. And it was the last enthusiast grade single-slot GPU from nVIDIA.
Apologies if I've...
$2500 for a company like Nvidia? That's like a down payment at this point. Especially when you consider that the 4090 was their best selling card. Also what's wrong with having 512-bit? More is always better.
There is always going to be fanboy BS, regardless of which brand. The answer has been simple, if ray tracing doesn't matter than whichever card is cheaper is the one to get. Yet here we are 6 pages later.
Yeah, I had a stock 7900 XTX (Nitro+) that would hit 3GHz easy. AMD doesn't need a card with a new BIOS on it...they need something with 15% or so more muscle.
AMD claimed rdna3 was good for up to 3ghz so a 7950 was basically expected to show up around this point but never did. Seen a few posts on forums from around summer last year with expectations for it to pop up around January, but nothing to...
Turns out they went with the reference card numbers they had from the earlier China release and not the newer Nitro card.
Also, AMD confirms OC bug in the 7900GRE...
So has the reference card got a lower power limit or clocks? That's the one i was looking at as i like the reference design.
Ed: apparently it runs at a lower power target.
Might pick one up depending on the UK price, its at a really weird price point where you can get a 7800xt for a bit less, or a bit more depending, and its not as if the GRE much faster, a few % at most, which some of the oc 7800's are at, or better.
Sounds more like a "because it makes me feel better" kind of thing (which I totally understand) rather than something you have to do today. If all that was required of a modern high end desktop system, we'd have a real problem.