The arrival of the Nvidia RIVA TNT with integrated 2D / 3D chipset would offer minor challenge to the Voodoo2's supremacy months later.

The Nvidia RIVA TNT was a similar, highly integrated product that had two major advantages in greater 3D speed and 32-bit 3D color support.

The next major chip from Nvidia would be the RIVA TNT.

The RIVA TNT, codenamed NV4, is a 2D, video, and 3D graphics accelerator chip for PCs that was manufactured by Nvidia.

The first RIVA TNT based card released on June 15, 1998 by STB: Velocity 4400.

The TNT was designed as a follow up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2.

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However, TNT gained Nvidia much attention and paved the way for the refreshed version called the RIVA TNT2.

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The chip is codenamed " NV5 " because it is the 5th graphics chip design by Nvidia, succeeding the RIVA TNT ( NV4 ).

The TNT2 core is almost identical to its predecessor the RIVA TNT, however updates included AGP 4X support, up to 32MB of VRAM, and a process shrink from 0. 35 μm to 0. 25 μm.

The TNT2 offered a higher quality feature-set than some of its competitors, pioneered by the RIVA TNT, such as 32-bit color in 3D and support for larger 2048 × 2048 px textures.

This chipset outperformed the older RIVA TNT while being less costly to produce.

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* RIVA 128 and RIVA TNT, a line of graphics cards made by Nvidia Corporation

The later Diamond Viper V550 and V770 utilized the RIVA TNT and RIVA TNT2 accelerators which were evolutions of the RIVA 128.

The company called out to the public to name the successor to the RIVA TNT2 line of graphics boards.

There were over 12, 000 entries received and 7 winners received a RIVA TNT2 Ultra graphics card as a reward.

The Voodoo2 required three chips and a separate VGA graphics card, whereas new competing 3D products, such as the ATI Rage Pro, Nvidia RIVA 128, and Rendition Verite 2200, were single-chip products.

* RIVA 128 ( Real-time Interactive Video and Animation accelerator ) was one of the first consumer graphics chips to integrate 3D and video acceleration in 1997

Released in late 1997 by Nvidia, the RIVA 128, or " NV3 ", was one of the first consumer graphics processing units to integrate 3D acceleration in addition to traditional 2D and video acceleration.

RIVA 128 had the advantage of being a combination 2D / 3D graphics chip, unlike Voodoo Graphics.

The ability to build a system with just one graphics card, and still have it be feature-complete for the time, made RIVA 128 a lower-cost high-performance solution.

Nvidia equipped RIVA 128 with 4 MiB of SGRAM, a new memory technology for the time, clocked at 100 MHz and connected to the graphics processor via a 128-bit memory bus.

RIVA 128's 2D capability was seen as impressive for its time and was competitive with even high-end 2D-only graphics cards in both quality and performance.

The RIVA TNT2 was a graphics processing unit manufactured by Nvidia starting in early 1999.

This resulted in the obsolescence of DirectX 7. 0 graphics chips such as the widespread GeForce 2 and Radeon 7200, as well as DirectX 6. 0 chipsets such as RIVA TNT2 and Rage 128, and integrated on-board graphics accelerators.

id Tech 4 resulted in the obsolescence of DirectX 7 graphics chips such as the widespread GeForce 2 and Radeon 7200, as well as older chipsets such as RIVA TNT2 and Rage 128, and software rendering ( with an integrated Intel GMA ).

Announced on August 31, 1999 and released on October 11, 1999, the GeForce 256 improves on its predecessor ( RIVA TNT2 ) 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.

Though it was still the fastest as it edged the RIVA TNT2 by a small margin, the Voodoo3 lacked 32-bit color and large texture support.

RIVA 128 was one of the early AGP 2X parts, giving it some more marketing headroom by being on the forefront of interface technology.

A beta driver with OpenGL support was once leaked by Nvidia but was canceled later, and there is no Windows 2000 driver for RIVA 128 on Nvidia's driver site today.

Unfortunately, by the time it would have launched, there were far more powerful accelerators available, such as NVIDIA's RIVA TNT and 3Dfx's Voodoo 2, that would have significantly overshadowed this board.

Unlike their contributions to TNT: Evilution, which were edited after submission ( four were also rejected due to being too large to run on the computers of the day ), these were the final revisions of the levels, and Dario Casali later commented about the fact that no changes were requested, " Thank God because I was ready to throw my computer out the window at the time.

He played Rodney Gronbeck, a LAPD computer expert, in the TNT crime drama Wanted.

The most known signal broadcast from TNT in Europe was ( and still is ) the signal feed in France, and used similar graphics to what the US signal feed was using at the time.

* TNT used this font for their graphics during the early 1990s.