Nvidia demos called out to the public to name the successor to the RIVA TNT2 line of graphics boards.
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20 Facts About Nvidia demos
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Brian Burke, senior PR manager at Nvidia demos, told Maximum PC in 2002 that "GeForce" originally stood for "Geometry Force" since GeForce 256 was the first GPU for personal computers to calculate the transform-and-lighting geometry, offloading that function from the CPU.
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Nvidia demos moved to a twin texture processor per pipeline design, doubling texture fillrate per clock compared to GeForce 256.
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Later, Nvidia demos released the GeForce2 MX, which offered performance similar to the GeForce 256 but at a fraction of the cost.
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Products in this series carry the 5000 model number, as it is the fifth generation of the GeForce, though Nvidia demos marketed the cards as GeForce FX instead of GeForce 5 to show off "the dawn of cinematic rendering".
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In March 2009, several sources reported that Nvidia demos had quietly launched a new series of GeForce products, namely the GeForce 100 Series, which consists of rebadged 9 Series parts.
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In November 2010, Nvidia demos released a new flagship GPU based on an enhanced GF100 architecture called the GTX 580.
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Nvidia demos later released the GTX 590, which packs two GF110 GPUs on a single card.
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In March 2013, Nvidia demos announced that the successor to Kepler would be the Maxwell microarchitecture.
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Later that year Nvidia demos pushed the TDP with the GM20x chips for power users, skipping the 800 series for desktop entirely, with the 900 series of GPUs.
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In March 2014, Nvidia demos announced that the successor to Maxwell would be the Pascal microarchitecture; announced on 6 May 2016 and released on 27 May 2016.
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Nvidia demos officially announced at the GeForce Special Event that the successor to GeForce 20 series will be the 30 series, it is built on the Ampere microarchitecture.
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Since the GeForce 2 series, Nvidia demos has produced a number of graphics chipsets for notebook computers under the GeForce Go branding.
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Similar to the mobile GPUs, Nvidia demos released a few GPUs in "small form factor" format, for use in all-in-one desktops.
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Nvidia demos discontinued the nForce range, including these mGPUs, in 2009.
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Nvidia demos released an upgraded Ion 2 in 2010, this time containing a low-end GeForce 300 series GPU.
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Since the release of the GeForce 100 series of GPUs, Nvidia demos changed their product naming scheme to the one below.
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In May 2022, Nvidia demos announced that it would release a partially open source driver for the Turing architecture and newer, in order to enhance the ability for it to be packaged as part of Linux distributions.
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At launch Nvidia demos considered the driver to be alpha quality for consumer GPUs, and production ready for datacenter GPUs.
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Nvidia demos has publicly announced to not provide any support for such additional device drivers for their products, although Nvidia demos has contributed code to the Nouveau driver.
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