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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX Turns 20: The First CUDA GPU Packed 128 Cores, 768 MB GDDR3, Ran Crysis At Playable FPS & Changed Everything About Graphics

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NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GTX launched 20 years ago, offering the CUDA architecture for the first time, which fundamentally changed the graphics industry. NVIDIA’s Historic GeForce 8800 GTX Launched Today, 20 Years Ago, & Its CUDA Architecture Went On To Revolutionize Graphics, Accelerated Computing, & AI There was a time when NVIDIA and AMD used to be neck-and-neck with each other in terms of GPU market share. That was the case through the majority of 2000s but then NVIDIA introduced its GeForce 8 series family and along with it, the one graphics card that changed the market forever, that card was […]

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