GeForce
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GeForce is the title given to all NVIDIA's current consumer 3D graphics expansion cards. The title is used to distinguish it from other market specific cards like NVIDIA's Quadro line. The GeForce line is primarily designed to accelerate common desktop graphical applications such as video games.
The equivalent card title from NVIDIA's competitor ATI (now owned by AMD) is the Radeon.
History
The GeForce 256 card was the first NVIDIA graphics card to be given the GeForce name. It was the successor to the Riva TNT2, and got it's now-famous moniker from a naming contest held by NVIDIA, entitled "Name That Chip." The card was released late 1999.
Since then there have been seven more generations of the GeForce series, each with multiple SKUs appealing to different price and performance tiers:
- GeForce 256 Series
- GeForce 2 Series
- GeForce 3 Series
- GeForce 4 Series
- GeForce FX Series
- GeForce 6 Series
- GeForce 7 Series
- GeForce 8 Series
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