You'd be surprised by just how many features so prevalent in modern GPUs were first introduced back at the dawn of the industry.
The first bearing the GeForce name still in use today, the GeForce 256 was also the"world's first GPU'. 'But what about the Voodoos and the Rivas?', I hear you ask. Well, clever marketing on Nvidia's part has the GeForce 256 stuck firmly in everyone's minds as the progenitor of modern graphics cards, but it was really just the name Nvidia gave its single-chip solution: a graphics processing unit, or GPU.
As you can probably tell, this sort of grandiose name, a near-parallel to the central processing unit that had been raking in ungodly wads of cash since the '70s, was welcomed across the industry. That's not to say the GeForce 256 wasn't a worthy namesake, however, integrating acceleration for transform and lighting into the newly-minted GPU, alongside a 120MHz clock speed and 32MB of DDR memory . It also fully-supported Direct3D 7, which would allow it to enjoy a long lifetime powering some of the best classic PC games released at that time.
Here's an excerpt from a press release on integrated transform and lighting that Nvidia released that year: "The developers and end-users have spoken, they're tired of poor-quality artificial intelligence, blocky characters, limited environments and other unnatural looking scenes," said David Kirk, chief technologist at Nvidia."This new graphics capability is the first step towards an interactive Toy Story or Jurassic Park."
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