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NVIDIA GeForce 256 for Windows

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The NVIDIA GeForce 256 is a revolutionary display driver and GPU that integrates transform, lighting, and rendering into one chip, providing high-speed polygon and pixel performance for increased visual complexity and realism.

  • Pros

    • Single chip integration of transform lighting setup and rendering
    • High performance delivery of fifteen million polygons per second
    • Powerful throughput of four hundred eighty million pixels per second
    • Unique two hundred fifty six bit rendering engine
    • Significant increase in visual complexity and graphics realism

  • Cons

    • Dependency on specific hardware for single chip GPU functionality
    • Limited to legacy graphics rendering standards
    • Driver functionality is restricted to compatible operating system environments
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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
7.1.8.9
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 10
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
Windows 2000/XP
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528
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By NVIDIA
Display driver
NVIDIA GeForce 256. With transform, lighting, setup, and rendering on a single GPU, the GeForce 256 delivers 15M polygons/second and 480M pixels/second of performance. Truly revolutionary, its unique 256-bit rendering engine enabled an order of magnitude increase in visual complexity, and helped to set the stage for the future of realism in graphics.
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