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Ihwanun Mudhofir Hariri
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a manufacturer of graphics processor company (graphics processing units), graphic cards, and media and communication tools for personal computers, and Sony Playstation 3 game console. The most famous products of the NVIDIA GeForce series is used for playing computer games. NVIDIA's main headquarters located at Highway San Tomas, Santa Clara, California. Latest series NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 which is already using the DirectX 10 version. NVIDIA is the toughest rival company that issued the ATI Radeon series. In 2001, the company achieved revenues of U.S. $ 1.37 billion and net income of U.S. $ 177.1 million.
* NV1 - NVIDIA's first product based on quadric surfaces
* Riva 128, Riva 128ZX - Support for DirectX 5, the first NVIDIA hardware in accordance with DirectX
* Riva TNT, Riva TNT2-Support for DirectX 6. Series that made NVIDIA a market leader
* GeForce
o GeForce 256 - DirectX 7 support, hardware and lighting changes, introducing and supporting DDR memory
o GeForce 2 - supports DirectX 7
o GeForce 3 - support for DirectX 8.0, has an advantage in memory bandwidth storage architecture
o GeForce 4
o GeForce FX series - support for DirectX 9, offers a cinema effect.
o GeForce 6 series - support for DirectX 9C, has advantages such as shadowing effects which increased, decreased power consumption and enables operation Scalable Link Interface
series o GeForce 7 - improving the performance of shadowing effects, Transparency supersampling (TSAA) and Transparency multisampling (TMAA) Anti-Aliasing
o GeForce 8 series - the first graphics cards from Nvidia that supports DirectX 10
o GeForce 9 series - Improving the performance and visual effects from the version of the GeForce 8
o The GTX 280 series of chipsets is the high end GeForce today, and plans to release another product from the ranks of 206 and 212 series GeForce nd year in 2008 to penetrate the market segment because of the Radeon 4870 from ATI / AM. adopted from (http://id.wikipedia.org).
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