NVIDIA was founded in January 1993. The company has chosen to focus on the development of high-performance graphics chips used in consumer video cards.

Processors became more powerful, monitor diagonals - more, games - more demanding. And buyers completely began to forget about everything in the world, except for Voodoo. It was early 1998 when nVidia announced a new chip, the Riva 128ZX.

1998 The third generation of 3D accelerators. Prerequisites: support for multitexturing, trilinear filtering, high fill rate, high resolution support.

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1999 Video cards based on the Riva TNT chip are sold out from the shelves of computer stores.

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Nvidia was required to do more than just distribute their products. This office needed to capture all areas of the 3D hardware market.

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A strange situation developed in the market for cheap video cards in 1999. Former champion Riva TNT cards cost around $60 for a 16 MB version. But suddenly nVidia wants to launch another product on the market of cheap video cards - Riva TNT2 M64.

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Another representative of cheap nVidia cards of the Riva TNT2 family. Riva TNT2 Vanta, like Riva TNT2 M64, has a 128-bit rendering pipeline and 64-bit memory access.

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