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Pre-GeForce22/05/199501/03/2000This is the "STG-2000", the beginnning of one of the most popular GPU brands in all of the world, before they created GeForce.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/1312-front.small.jpgThe first released NVIDIA card.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-256-sdr.c7311990sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 256 Series11/10/199913/12/1999This is where GeForce started, the "GeForce 256 SDR". There are only two cards in this series in totalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/731-front.small.jpgThe first card of the second series released.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-256-sdr.c7311990sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce2 Series26/04/200001/10/2001The GeForce2 GTS, with a whopping 32 MB memeory size. You should try playing a modern game with this, nothing will go wrong.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/797-front.small.jpgOne of the earlier cards in the third series.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce2-gts.c7972000sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce3 Series27/02/200101/10/2001The GeForce3 Ti200 doubled the memory of the 2 GTS. According to the image source, the highest recommended resolution for gaming is 1366x768. All of the models support 3D textures.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/742-front.small.jpgOne of the earlier cards in the fourth series.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce3-ti200.c7422000sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce4 Series06/02/200219/02/2004One of the first cards of this series, the GeForce4 MX 420 has the same memory and resolution recommendations as the previously mentioned card. All of these models support Accuview Antialiasing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/777-front.small.jpgOne of the earlier cards in the fifth series.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce4-mx-420.c7772000sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce FX (5000) Series27/01/200301/09/2004This card, the GeForce FX 5800 is now at 128 MB of memory, likely helped greatly back in the day. Funny to think about how small this is today.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/703-front.small.jpgOne of the earlier cards in the sixth series.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-fx-5800.c7032000sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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Skipping Ahead01/10/200409/11/2010For the sake of getting to the more modern cards#N/A
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GeForce 500 Series10/11/201029/11/2011The 500 Series was the direct competitor of AMD's Radeon 6000 Series. This series was actually just a heavily modified version of the 400 Series cards. The most bang for your buck card of this generation is the 560 Ti, shown in the image.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/273-front.jpgThe 560 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-560-ti.c2732010sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 600 Series22/03/201227/11/2013The 600 Series added NVENC onto the cards, which was Nvidia's own encoder that would allow the GPU to do the video encoding rather than the CPU. A rather questionable business practice is that some of the cards in this series are just rebranded 400 or 500 series cards. The 680 was the most revolutionary card of this series, sporting some of the highest stats across the series.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/342-front.small.jpgThe 680.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-680.c3422010sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 700 Series21/02/201326/01/2016The 700 series further improved upon the NVENC introduced in the previous series. This series includes one of the more popular and powerful cards, the 750 Ti.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/2548-front.small.jpgThe 750 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-750-ti.c25482010sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 900 Series20/08/201501/02/2016The 900 series improved the NVENC even further. The 980 Ti was one of the more popular cards and was also on the higher end.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/2724-front.small.jpgThe 980 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-980-ti.c27242010sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 10 Series27/05/201613/01/2021Obvious NVENC development as with the previous series. This was the beginning of most series only have xx50, xx60, xx70, xx80 for main entries in a series.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/2877-front.small.jpgThe 1080 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1080-ti.c28772010s - 2020sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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GeForce 16 Series21/02/201928/06/2022NVENC 6th Generation, but two versions of the 1650 and one version of the 1630 use the NVENC version of the previous Volta series that is not mentioned here. The only "Ti" release was the 1660 Ti.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/3364-front.small.jpgThe 1660 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1660-ti.c33642010s - 2020sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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RTX 20 Series20/09/201807/12/2021NVENC 6th Generation. Nvidia cards have always been expensive, but this is where people really started to take notice and complain about the prices. However, while these are expensive they also popularized ray tracing. This uses a specific lighting engine to emulate realistic lighting, but is very intensive on the hardware, cards in the more recent series have greatly reduced the intensity.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/3305-front.small.jpgThe 2080 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2080-ti.c33052010s - 2020sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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RTX 30 Series17/09/202002/02/2024NVENC 7th Generation. NVIDIA DLSS 2.0. DLSS is a technology that upscales an image while rendering it at a lower resolution to allow for higher framerates when enabled.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://tpucdn.com/gpu-specs/images/c/3735-front.small.jpgThe 3080 Ti.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080-ti.c37352020sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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RTX 40 Series12/10/202231/01/2024Dual NVENC. Third generation of ray tracing core. Introduced DLSS 3.0 and 3.5. Extremely Expensive.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_unitshttps://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/geforce/ada/rtx-4080/geforce-rtx-4080-super-og-1200x630.jpgThe 4080 Super.https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4080-family/2020sSanta Clara, California37.3541132,-121.955174Wikipedia.com
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