NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX 20 Years of a Legend Unboxing Simulator Brings 2006 Back to Steam
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NVIDIA has released a free demo on Steam for the GeForce 8800 GTX, which was released in 2006 for $599 and launched CUDA. So how did this card usher in the age of artificial intelligence?
NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX 20 Years of a Legend Unboxing Simulator Brings 2006 Back to Steam
Steam added a free download this morning, that lets anyone with the right hardware open a cardboard box, pull out a GeForce 8800 GTX, and slide the card into a tower that boots Windows Vista. Unreal Engine artist Dylan Browne built the experience with help from Nvidia, three days before the card’s actual twentieth anniversary. [...]
Twenty years ago, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 8800 GTX, a graphics card that played a pivotal role in the development of gaming computers. The model debuted on November 8, 2006, and was the first to support the CUDA architecture. To mark the anniversary... Full version of the website: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/geforce_8800_gtx_nvidia_karta_graficzna-55852.html
Nvidia ensure unboxing a ludicrously expensive new graphics card isn't limited to real life in these RAM crisis times by releasing a GeForce 8800 GTX unpacking sim
In what feels a fairly cheeky move during a time when memory shortages have infamously made it pretty much impossible to buy a decently powerful new graphics card without spending approximately a gazillion pounds/dollars/dollarpounds, Nvidia have decided to put out a Steam demo that allows folks to re-live the feeling of unboxing a ludicrously expensive graphics card in 2006.
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
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…
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