GeForce 256 was marketed as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit", a term Nvidia defined at the time as "a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second".

Sep 12, 2023 · The first of the Voodoo line of video cards was introduced in 1996 by 3dfx, called the Voodoo1. It required a 2D video card to be installed in a computer, allowing it to run alongside and provide 3D graphics rendering for computer gamers.

A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

Dec 7, 2023 · Nvidia launched their first graphics chip, the NV1, in May, and it became the first commercial graphics processor capable of 3D rendering, video acceleration, and integrated GUI acceleration.

Jul 3, 2016 · In 1984 IBM introduced its first GPU called Professional Graphics Controller (PGC) or Professional Graphics Adapter (PGA). In essence, it was an expansion card that could accelerate 3D...

Jul 14, 2015 · As the first graphics card to being called a GPU – Nvidia coined the term, in fact – the GeForce offered support for DirectX 7 and was capable of processing “a minimum of 10 million polygons per second.”

Sep 11, 2019 · Just after the release of MDA video display cards, IBM created the first graphics card with full-color display. The Color Graphics Card (CGC) was designed with 16 kB of video memory, two text modes, and the ability to connect to either a direct-drive CRT monitor or a NTSC-compatible television.

Apr 26, 2022 · From the early days of 3D consumer graphics cards to the 3Dfx Voodoo game changers, the industry consolidated at the turn of the century and today’s modern GPGPUs. The first true 3D graphics cards began with early display controllers, namely video shifters and video address generators.

Feb 22, 2018 · The history of modern GPUs starts in 1995 with the introduction of the first 3D add-in cards, and later the adoption of the 32-bit operating systems and affordable personal computers.

In the 1980s, IBM was the first company to develop the graphics card. The monochrome display adapter and the color graphics adapter were plug-in devices that attached to the CRT. The MDA card had 4 kilobytes of memory that could handle 720 …