ADVISORY/VisionTek First to PC Market with GeForce3-Based Graphics Accelerator: First Card Powered by NVIDIA's Groundbreaking Programmable GPU.ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (March 1) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Photos, Text news releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) VisionTek, a leading provider of advanced graphics and memory solutions for PCs, introduces the most advanced graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. available to consumers and businesses. Powered by the latest graphics processing unit See GPU. (GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. ) from NVIDIA Corp, VisionTek's GeForce3 graphics accelerator is the fastest and most powerful card on the market, as well as the first to feature a programmable GPU and performance compatible with Microsoft's DirectX(r) 8.0 application program interface. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?2229 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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