In October 2003, NVIDIA released the GeForce FX 5700 and GeForce FX 5950.

He moved to work for NVIDIA at the end of 2001.

From 2001 to 2008, he worked for NVIDIA as a GPU architect designing rasterization algorithms.

The STM PowerVR3 KYRO II, released in 2001, was able to rival the more expensive ATI Radeon DDR and NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS in graphic benchmarks of the time, despite not having hardware Transform and lighting ( T & L ).

It was founded in 2001 by Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta.

With GeForce 3, NVIDIA introduced programmable shader functionality into their 3D architecture, in line with the release of Microsoft's DirectX 8. 0.

ElcomSoft ’ s patented innovations include GPU acceleration allowing to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs by using consumer-grade video cards with ATI or NVIDIA chips.

EWSA, however, can use a computer's processor ( s ), with up to 32 logical cores, up to 8 GPUs, all with many CUDA cores ( NVIDIA ) or Stream Processors ( ATI ).

* Project update with NVIDIA sponsorship information

: In late 2007, work began on the implementation of new RC5-72 cores designed to run on NVIDIA CUDA-enabled hardware, with the first completed work units reported in November 2008.

The new media processor business was developed out of the original UK R & D center with most of the workstation graphics teams that came from Intense3D and Dynamic Pictures having been hired by Intel and NVIDIA.

Later graphics options included the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 ; the card included two dual-link DVI connectors which allowed a Power Mac G5 to run two 30 " Cinema Displays simultaneously with the total number of pixels working out at 8. 2 million.

The Mac Pro is also available with both the ATI Radeon X1900XT card and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 as Build-To-Order options.

Many computer companies, including NVIDIA, Razer, Cyber Snipa, Antec, Quixby, Corsair, Alienware, and Thermaltake, offer sponsorship packages to large LAN parties, with funding, prizes, or equipment given in return for advertising.

Many of the original CGL team now forms the elite of the CG and computer world with members going on to Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, Cisco, NVIDIA and others, including Pixar President Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and Microsoft Graphics Fellow Alvy Ray Smith, Pixar co-founder Ralph Guggenheim, Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Williams, Dreamworks Animator Hank Grebe, Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark ( James H. Clark ), Microsoft Graphics Fellow Jim Blinn, Thad Beier, Andrew Glassner and Tom Brigham.

NVIDIA will cease driver support for GeForce 6 series starting with 310. xx drivers.

Crytek has partnerships with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, THQ, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, FMOD, Scaleform, Xoreax Software, Sparkasse Coburg, and Rating Services.

Crytek first attracted publicity at the 2000 ECTS with their tech demo at the NVIDIA booth.

There were just two featured tournaments, both with $ 50, 000 purses, and both sponsored by NVIDIA: ET: QW, and the new Quad Damage Tournament, which combined all four Quake games into one competition.

Later NVIDIA followed with similar, new demos and ATI Technologies joined the race.

* NVIDIA SLI with CUDA

However, just before it ceased operations and had its assets purchased by NVIDIA, 3dfx released the Glide API, along with the Voodoo 2 and Voodoo 3 specifications, under an open source license, which later evolved into an open source project.

In February 2008 after Nvidia bought Ageia Technologies and eventually cut off the ability to process PhysX on the AGEIA PPU and NVIDIA GPUs in systems with active ATi / AMD GPUs, it seemed that PhysX went 100 % to Nvidia.

To compete with the PhysX PPU, an edition known as Havok FX was to take advantage of multi-GPU technology from ATI ( CrossFire ) and NVIDIA ( SLI ) using existing cards to accelerate certain physics calculations.

NVIDIA introduced similar technology with the release of GeForce 3, called Lightspeed Memory Architecture ( LMA ).

The end result in benchmarks showed the card performing ahead of the prior generation of cards ( Matrox G400, ATI Rage Fury MAXX, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2, 3dfx Voodoo3 ) but it did not always keep up with the GeForce 256.

The dominant GPU market share once held by S3, now fell primarily to NVIDIA with its GeForce line, and ATI's Radeon series.

Rendition and Hercules were at one point cooperating on a " Thriller Conspiracy " project which combined a Fujitsu FXG-1 " Pinolite " geometry processor with a V2200 core to create a gaming graphics card with a full transform and lighting ( T & L ) engine years before the NVIDIA GeForce 256.

NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce 256 series.

* NVIDIA: GeForce 256-The World's First GPU

The GeForce FX or " GeForce 5 " series ( codenamed NV30 ) is a line of graphics processing units from the manufacturer NVIDIA.

In April 2003, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce FX 5600 and the GeForce FX 5200 to address the other market segments.

In May 2003, NVIDIA launched the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, a new high-end product to replace the low-volume and disappointing FX 5800.

In December 2003, NVIDIA launched the GeForce FX 5900XT, a graphics card intended for the mid-range segment.

NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce FX series.

In order to create a better low-end option, NVIDIA created the GeForce 2 MX series, which offered a set of standard features, specific to the entire GeForce 2 generation, limited only by categorical tier.

* GeForce, a graphics card brand name of NVIDIA

Introduced three months after NVIDIA acquired 3dfx and marketed as the nFinite FX Engine, the GeForce 3 was the first Microsoft Direct3D 8. 0 compliant 3D-card.

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 4300

FMA capability is also present in the NVIDIA GeForce 200 Series ( GTX 200 ) GPUs, GeForce 400 Series, GeForce 500 Series GPUs and the NVIDIA Tesla C1060

** NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600-5900 ( NV3x )