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GeForce 6 series

Index GeForce 6 series

The GeForce 6 Series (codename NV40) is Nvidia's sixth generation of GeForce graphic processing units. [1]

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Accelerated Graphics Port

The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) was designed as a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer system, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

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BFG Technologies

BFG Technologies was a privately held U.S.-based supplier of power supplies and video cards based on NVIDIA graphics technology and a manufacturer of high-end gaming/home theater computer systems.

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Code name

A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project or person.

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DDR SDRAM

DDR SDRAM is a double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory class of memory integrated circuits used in computers.

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Direct3D

Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows.

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DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

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Doom 3

Doom 3 (stylized as DOOM3) is a survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.

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EVGA Corporation

EVGA Corporation is an American computer hardware company that produces Nvidia GPU based video cards as well as Intel chipset based motherboards.

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GDDR3 SDRAM

Graphics DDR3 SDRAM (GDDR3 SDRAM) is a type of DDR SDRAM specialized for graphics processing units (GPUs) offering less access latency and greater device bandwidths.

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GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia.

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GeForce 7 series

The GeForce 7 Series is the seventh generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units.

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GeForce FX series

The GeForce FX or "GeForce 5" series (codenamed NV30) is a line of graphics processing units from the manufacturer NVIDIA.

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Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

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H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based video compression standard.

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High-definition video

High-definition video is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.

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High-Level Shading Language

The High-Level Shader Language or High-Level Shading Language (HLSL) is a proprietary shading language developed by Microsoft for the Direct3D 9 API to augment the shader assembly language, and went on to become the required shading language for the unified shader model of Direct3D 10 and higher.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Intellisample

Intellisample is the brand name for NVIDIA's antialiasing method in GeForce graphics cards.

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Interlaced video

Interlaced video is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth.

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List of Nvidia graphics processing units

This page contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and videocards from Nvidia, based on official specifications.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data.

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Multisample anti-aliasing

Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is a type of spatial anti-aliasing, a technique used in computer graphics to improve image quality.

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Nanometre

The nanometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm) or nanometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (m).

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Native Command Queuing

In computing, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is an extension of the Serial ATA protocol allowing hard disk drives to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed.

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NForce4

The nForce4 is a motherboard chipset released by Nvidia in October, 2004.

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Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation (most commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or (due to their logo) nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California.

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Nvidia PureVideo

PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding.

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Nvidia Quadro

Quadro is Nvidia's brand for graphics cards intended for use in workstations running professional computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), and digital content creation (DCC) applications.

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OpenGL

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.

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PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards.

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PNY Technologies

PNY Technologies, Inc is an American manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, portable battery chargers, computer locks, cables, chargers, adapters, as well as consumer and professional graphics cards.

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Scalable Link Interface

Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU technology developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output.

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Serial ATA

Serial ATA (SATA, abbreviated from Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.

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Shader

In computer graphics, a shader is a type of computer program that was originally used for shading (the production of appropriate levels of light, darkness, and color within an image) but which now performs a variety of specialized functions in various fields of computer graphics special effects or does video post-processing unrelated to shading, or even functions unrelated to graphics at all.

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SPARKLE Computer

Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. (stylised as SPARKLE),is a Taiwanese electronics firm established in 1982, based in Taipei.

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Spatial anti-aliasing

In digital signal processing, spatial anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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Supersampling

Supersampling is a spatial anti-aliasing method, i.e. a method used to remove aliasing (jagged and pixelated edges, colloquially known as "jaggies") from images rendered in computer games or other computer programs that generate imagery.

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Transistor count

The transistor count is the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (IC).

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TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC), also known as Taiwan Semiconductor, is the world's largest dedicated independent (pure-play) semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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TurboCache

NVIDIA's TurboCache technology is a method of allowing video cards more available framebuffer memory by using both onboard video memory and main system memory.

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Vanilla software

Computer software, and sometimes also other computing-related systems like computer hardware or algorithms, are called vanilla when not customized from their original form, meaning that they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them.

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VP8

VP8 is an open and royalty free video compression format owned by Google and created by On2 Technologies as a successor to VP7.

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Windows Media Video

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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XFX

XFX Inc. is an American electronics company that specializes in the manufacturing of video cards, power supplies and motherboards.

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XGI Technology

XGI Technology Inc. is based upon the old graphics division of SiS spun off as a separate company, and the graphics assets of Trident Microsystems.

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ZOTAC

ZOTAC is a computer hardware manufacturer based in Macau.

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3D Fuzion

3D Fuzion was a downmarket subsidiary of now-defunct BFG Technologies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_6_series

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