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Diamond Viper v550 Riva TNT
Diamond Viper V550 with Nvidia Riva TNT.
PCI Interface, 16MB SDRAM, first generation of Nvidia chips.
Relase Date: 1998
The RIVA TNT, codenamed NV4, is a 2D, video, and 3D graphics accelerator chip for PCs that was manufactured by Nvidia. The TNT was designed as a follow up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2. It added a second pixel pipeline, practically doubling rendering speed, and used considerably faster memory. Unlike the Voodoo2 (but like the slower Matrox G200) it also added support for a 32-bit (truecolor) pixel format, 24-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode, an 8-bit stencil buffer and support for 1024×1024 pixels textures. Improved texture filtering techniques, partially assisted by newly added trilinear filtering, dramatically improved image quality compared to the TNT's predecessor. It also added support for up to 16 MiB of SDR SDRAM. TNT was a single chip solution.
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Diamond Viper v550 Riva TNT
Diamond Viper V550 with Nvidia Riva TNT.
PCI Interface, 16MB SDRAM, first generation of Nvidia chips.
Relase Date: 1998
The RIVA TNT, codenamed NV4, is a 2D, video, and 3D graphics accelerator chip for PCs that was manufactured by Nvidia. The TNT was designed as a follow up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2. It added a second pixel pipeline, practically doubling rendering speed, and used considerably faster memory. Unlike the Voodoo2 (but like the slower Matrox G200) it also added support for a 32-bit (truecolor) pixel format, 24-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode, an 8-bit stencil buffer and support for 1024×1024 pixels textures. Improved texture filtering techniques, partially assisted by newly added trilinear filtering, dramatically improved image quality compared to the TNT's predecessor. It also added support for up to 16 MiB of SDR SDRAM. TNT was a single chip solution.
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