Graphics Processing Units
GeForce 256
First GPU branded as such by NVIDIA with hardware T&L
Hardware transform and lighting256-bit rendering pipeline10 million triangles per secondDDR memory support
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Graphics Processing Units
Radeon 7500
ATI's mainstream GPU with dual display support
HydraDision dual displayVideo Immersion IIPixel Tapestry IIDDR memory
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2006
Graphics Processing Units
GeForce 8800 GTX
First unified shader architecture GPU introducing CUDA
Unified shader architecture128 stream processorsDirectX 10 supportCUDA parallel computing768 MB GDDR3
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