{"wikiid":645968,"langid":"en","namespace":"CATEGORY","title":"Nvidia Video Card","revisionid":1462452,"contents_raw":"== Background ==\n\nNvidia Corporation is a graphics and system chip designer, and a computing and API developer, founded in 1993, USA. Nvidia began with graphics accelerators, its first release was the NV1, in 1995. Nvidia gained market recognition with the release of the NV3 and NV4 graphics accelerators in 1997, and 1998. They has since focused on computing, integration and software infrastructure. Nvidia released CUDA in 2006, a computing platform and API for accelerated processing used by researchers and super computers. In 2012 they made breakthroughs with artificial intelligence. Nvidia also serves the automotive industry, with digitization, infrastructure, manufacturing and engineering. Nvidia is in the healthcare and data center industry, with AI adaptation, performance computing and infrastructure.\n\nThe Nvidia GeForce product family launched in 1999 with the GeForce 256, a 220\u00a0nm design with a 120\u00a0MHz clock and 32 MB of video memory. The product line targeted performance computing and gamers, and introduced GTX as a suffix in 2005, with the GeForce 7800 GTX. GTX later became a consumer card prefix from 2008 until the GeForce GTX 16 series, in 2020. Alongside GeForce, Nvidia ran the Quadro workstation GPU family, from 2000 until 2020. Quadro GPUs were the first to receive many features that later became a staple in the RTX family.\n\nThe GeForce RTX series graphics cards debuted in 2018 with the RTX 20 series, replacing the GeForce GTX and Quadro families. The new GPUs introduced realtime ray tracing, previously viable only in non-real-time task such as CGI. Alongside ray tracing, RTX series brought AI acceleration, new asset format for Nvidia's Omniverse, and ray tracing acceleration engines such as Nvidia's OptiX, Microsoft's DXR and Vulcan.\n\n== Identification ==\n\nTo identify your graphics card in Windows, open:\n\n* Nvidia Control Panel\n* Select Help in the navigation bar\n* The GPU model name will be shown in the items tab.\n\nTo identify your graphics card in a Linux environment, see this [link|https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/508993\/how-to-check-which-gpu-is-installed-on-linux\/|How-To Geek's guide|new_window=true].\n\n== Additional Information ==\n\n* [link|https:\/\/www.nvidia.com|Nvidia: Homepage|new_window=true]\n* [link|https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce\/|Nvidia: GeForce|new_window=true]\n* [link|https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nvidia|Wikipedia: Nvidia|new_window=true]\n\n=== Additional sources and Further reading ===\n\n* [link|https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeForce|Wikipedia: GeForce|new_window=true]\n* [link|https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nvidia_RTX|Wikipedia: Nvidia RTX|new_window=true]\n* [link|https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadro|Wikipedia: Quadro|new_window=true]\n* [link|https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/gpus\/nvidia-gtx-branding-finally-reaches-the-end-of-the-line-after-19-years-the-last-gtx-16-series-chips-have-left-the-foundry|Tom's Hardware: Nvidia GTX branding finally reaches the end of the line|new_window=true]","contents_json":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Background"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Nvidia Corporation is a graphics and system chip designer, and a computing and API developer, founded in 1993, USA. Nvidia began with graphics accelerators, its first release was the NV1, in 1995. Nvidia gained market recognition with the release of the NV3 and NV4 graphics accelerators in 1997, and 1998. They has since focused on computing, integration and software infrastructure. Nvidia released CUDA in 2006, a computing platform and API for accelerated processing used by researchers and super computers. In 2012 they made breakthroughs with artificial intelligence. Nvidia also serves the automotive industry, with digitization, infrastructure, manufacturing and engineering. Nvidia is in the healthcare and data center industry, with AI adaptation, performance computing and infrastructure."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The Nvidia GeForce product family launched in 1999 with the GeForce 256, a 220\u00a0nm design with a 120\u00a0MHz clock and 32 MB of video memory. The product line targeted performance computing and gamers, and introduced GTX as a suffix in 2005, with the GeForce 7800 GTX. GTX later became a consumer card prefix from 2008 until the GeForce GTX 16 series, in 2020. Alongside GeForce, Nvidia ran the Quadro workstation GPU family, from 2000 until 2020. Quadro GPUs were the first to receive many features that later became a staple in the RTX family."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The GeForce RTX series graphics cards debuted in 2018 with the RTX 20 series, replacing the GeForce GTX and Quadro families. The new GPUs introduced realtime ray tracing, previously viable only in non-real-time task such as CGI. Alongside ray tracing, RTX series brought AI acceleration, new asset format for Nvidia's Omniverse, and ray tracing acceleration engines such as Nvidia's OptiX, Microsoft's DXR and Vulcan."}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Identification"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"To identify your graphics card in Windows, open:"}]},{"type":"bulletList","attrs":[],"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Nvidia Control Panel"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Select Help in the navigation bar"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The GPU model name will be shown in the items tab."}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"To identify your graphics card in a Linux environment, see this "},{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/508993\/how-to-check-which-gpu-is-installed-on-linux\/","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"How-To Geek's guide"},{"type":"text","text":"."}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Additional Information"}]},{"type":"bulletList","attrs":[],"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Nvidia: Homepage"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce\/","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Nvidia: GeForce"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nvidia","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Wikipedia: Nvidia"}]}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Additional sources and Further reading"}]},{"type":"bulletList","attrs":[],"content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GeForce","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Wikipedia: GeForce"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nvidia_RTX","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Wikipedia: Nvidia RTX"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadro","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Wikipedia: Quadro"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/gpus\/nvidia-gtx-branding-finally-reaches-the-end-of-the-line-after-19-years-the-last-gtx-16-series-chips-have-left-the-foundry","target":"_blank"}}],"text":"Tom's Hardware: Nvidia GTX branding finally reaches the end of the line"}]}]}]}]},"contents_rendered":"
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Nvidia Corporation is a graphics and system chip designer, and a computing and API developer, founded in 1993, USA. Nvidia began with graphics accelerators, its first release was the NV1, in 1995. Nvidia gained market recognition with the release of the NV3 and NV4 graphics accelerators in 1997, and 1998. They has since focused on computing, integration and software infrastructure. Nvidia released CUDA in 2006, a computing platform and API for accelerated processing used by researchers and super computers. In 2012 they made breakthroughs with artificial intelligence. Nvidia also serves the automotive industry, with digitization, infrastructure, manufacturing and engineering. Nvidia is in the healthcare and data center industry, with AI adaptation, performance computing and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n

The Nvidia GeForce product family launched in 1999 with the GeForce 256, a 220\u00a0nm design with a 120\u00a0MHz clock and 32 MB of video memory. The product line targeted performance computing and gamers, and introduced GTX as a suffix in 2005, with the GeForce 7800 GTX. GTX later became a consumer card prefix from 2008 until the GeForce GTX 16 series, in 2020. Alongside GeForce, Nvidia ran the Quadro workstation GPU family, from 2000 until 2020. Quadro GPUs were the first to receive many features that later became a staple in the RTX family.<\/p>\n\n

The GeForce RTX series graphics cards debuted in 2018 with the RTX 20 series, replacing the GeForce GTX and Quadro families. The new GPUs introduced realtime ray tracing, previously viable only in non-real-time task such as CGI. Alongside ray tracing, RTX series brought AI acceleration, new asset format for Nvidia's Omniverse, and ray tracing acceleration engines such as Nvidia's OptiX, Microsoft's DXR and Vulcan.<\/p>\n\n

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Identification<\/h2><\/div>\n\n

To identify your graphics card in Windows, open:<\/p>\n\n