Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks agoNvidia did indeed market it as the first GPU at the time. You can retroactively apply the term, but it didn’t exist before then.
Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics?
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks agoNvidia did indeed market it as the first GPU at the time. You can retroactively apply the term, but it didn’t exist before then.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
Sony coined the term GPU in 1994 for what was in the Playstation.
Nvidia might have marketed it as the first GPU, but other companies had combined 2D/3D processors on a single chip marketed to consumers well before the GeForce, including Nvidia themselves with the Riva 128. The GeForce was the first product from Nvidia marketed as a GPU, but that doesn’t mean it was the first product to market that was either called a GPU or not called that but still was one. It WAS the first to market with a T&L system (though Rendition had T&L on a chip first it never made it to market).