DirectX 10.0
Playstation 3
Sony Game Console
GeForce 7 series
The 7100 series was introduced on August 30, 2006 and is based on GeForce 6200 Series architecture. This series supports only PCI Express interface. Only one model is available and it is called 710...
OpenGL 2.1
OpenGL 2.1 was released on August 2, 2006 and is backward compatible with all prior OpenGL versions.[13] OpenGL 2.1 incorporates the following functionality: * OpenGL Shading Language revision...
Radeon X1000
ATI's "R520" core (codenamed Fudo) is the foundation for a line of DirectX 9.0c 3D accelerator X1000 video cards. It is ATI's first major architectural overhaul since the "R300" core and is highly ...
GeForce 6 series
The GeForce 6 Series (codenamed NV40) is Nvidia's sixth generation of GeForce graphics chipsets. All of them support Vertex and Pixel shader version 3.0, as required under the Microsoft DirectX 9.0...
DirectX 9.0
GeForce FX (5x00)
Nvidia's GeForce FX series is the fifth generation in the GeForce line. With GeForce 3, Nvidia introduced programmable shader units into their 3D rendering capabilities, in line with the release of...
Radeon 9700
The Radeon R300 (introduced August 2002) is the third generation of Radeon graphics chips from ATI Technologies. The line features 3D acceleration based upon Direct3D 9.0 and OpenGL 2.x, a major im...
DirectX 8.0
nVidia buys 3Dfx
Radeon
R100 : Was ATI's first graphics processor to be fully DirectX 7 compliant. It was first introduced in 2000. R100 brought with it large gains in bandwidth and fill-rate efficiency through the new Hy...
DirectX 7.0
Windows 2000
GeForce 256
The GeForce 256 was the first of Nvidia's "GeForce" product-line. Released on August 31, 1999, the GeForce 256 improved on its predecessor (RIVA TNT2) by increasing the number of fixed pixel-pipeli...
DirectX 6.0
DirectX 5.0
DirectX 3.0
3dfx voodoo
3dfx founded
nVidia founded
ATI founded
