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Nvidia NV1

The Nvidia NV1 launched in 1995 and was able to handle both 2D and 3D video. It even had a port for a Sega Saturn joypad to give it wider appeal.

Nvidia RIVA 128

The NV3 was much more successful than the company’s first GPU and help Nvidia get widespread popularity.

Nvidia NV4

In 1998, Nvidia unleashed NV4, aka Riva TNT which had support for 32-bit True Colour, 16MB of SDR SDRAM and an affordable price tag.

Nvidia NV5

The NV4 bought a number of updates including 32-bit Z-buffer/stencil support, up to 32MB of VRAM and 2048 x 2048 texture support. 

Nvidia GeForce 256

Late in 1999, Nvidia released the “world’s first GPU”. Thus started the love affair with GeForce-branded graphics cards for years to come. 

Nvidia GeForce2

The thing that made GeForce2 interesting was the start of support for multi-monitor setups. 

Nvidia GeForce3

Nvidia’s first DirectX 8-compatible card, GeForce 3 was interesting for a number of reasons and it was even used in the original Xbox.

Nvidia GeForce FX series

Leap forward a couple of generations and in 2003 we have the release of Nvidia’s GeForce FX series. New technologies abound.

Nvidia GeForce 6 series

GeForce 6 was the start of Nvidia pushing SLI technology allowing people to combine more than one graphics card for more power. 

Nvidia GeForce7 series

In 2005 came the GeForce7 series including the highlight thought of 7800 GTX. A version of this line-up powered the PlayStation 3.

Nvidia GeForce8 series

The much-loved Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX was the flagship of this range and it could run Crysis, which was all that PC gamers wanted at the time. 

Nvidia GeForce9 series

By this time Nvidia was pushing performance up a notch with clock speeds hitting up to 675MHz and yet power consumption was being reduced as well. 

Nvidia GeForce 400 series

In 2010 Nvidia launched the GeForce 4000 series. This was when Nvidia revealed the Fermi microarchitecture which was the company’s next major architecture. 

Nvidia GeForce 600 series

The GeForce 600 series introduced Nvidia’s Kepler architecture and other improvements including GPU boost, NVENC and more.

Nvidia GeForce 700 series

In 2013 Nvidia kicked things up a notch with the 700 series which was topped off with the insane high-end enthusiast GTX Titan card. 

Nvidia GeForce 900 series

In 2014 Nvidia seemingly skipped a generation and went straight into the GeForce 900 series with improved capabilities as well as better energy efficiency.

Nvidia GeForce10 series

The GTX 1080 Ti is perhaps the most well known of the GPUs from this series and is perhaps one of the most significant cards Nvidia has released. 

Nvidia GeForce20 series

Notably, these graphics cards were the first-gen of RTX cards and saw Nvidia pushing ray tracing as the main selling point. 

Nvidia GeForce30 series

The GeForce 30 series succeeded the 20 series and unfortunately became most well-known for simply being impossible to get hold of due to the silicone shortage.