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DirectX 10.0

Feb 3, 2008

Playstation 3

Nov 10, 2006

Sony Game Console

GeForce 7 series

Aug 29, 2006

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

Aug 1, 2006

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...

AMD buys ATI

Jul 23, 2006

5.4 B$

Radeon X1000

Oct 4, 2005

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 ...

Xbox 360

May 11, 2005

Microsoft game Console

GeForce 6 series

Apr 13, 2004

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

Dec 18, 2002

GeForce FX (5x00)

Oct 2002

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

Jul 2002

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

Nov 11, 2000

Radeon

May 8, 2000 1:00 PM PDT

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...

nVidia buys 3Dfx

May 8, 2000 1:00 PM PDT

DirectX 7.0

Feb 16, 2000

Windows 2000

GeForce 256

Aug 30, 1999

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...

Rage 128

May 8, 1999 1:53 AM PDT

ATI

DirectX 6.0

Aug 6, 1998

Voodoo 2

Jan 31, 1998

3dFx

DirectX 5.0

Jul 15, 1997

Riva 128

May 8, 1997 1:45 AM PDT

nVidia

DirectX 3.0

May 8, 1996 1:30 AM PDT

3dfx voodoo

May 8, 1996 1:25 AM PDT

3dfx founded

May 8, 1994 1:25 AM PDT

nVidia founded

May 8, 1993 1:21 AM PDT

OpenGL

1992

Silicon Graphics

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