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Lotta Direct X babble. Direct X versions don't tell me what the cards can and can't do.

Permedia 2

For the record, the Permedia-2 didn't have on-chip hardware T&L. It incorporated hardware similar to the earlier Glint Delta chip which accelerated triangle setup, but T&L was still handled in software by the host CPU.

The Glint Gamma follow-on to the Delta chip did have full hardware T&L support for OpenGL.

GeForce SE

A GeForce SE was also available from at least one vendor (Guillemot, their 3D Prophet card) that had SDR DRAM. I do not have any other specs. 198.49.81.49 (talk) 18:36, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How about more qualitative improvements

When I got my first GeForce card, compared to the previous card I had, the main benefit wasn't so much its increased speed, but its ability to use things like cube maps and bump maps, which were simply impossible on older Nvidia hardware and on competing hardware of the time. When playing a game that supported those, it looked like more of a leap forward than the article suggests.

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 == GeForce SE ==
 A GeForce SE was also available from at least one vendor (Guillemot, their 3D Prophet card) that had SDR DRAM.  I do not have any other specs. [[Special:Contributions/198.49.81.49|198.49.81.49]] ([[User talk:198.49.81.49|talk]]) 18:36, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
+== How about more qualitative improvements ==
+When I got my first GeForce card, compared to the previous card I had, the main benefit wasn't so much its increased speed, but its ability to use things like cube maps and bump maps, which were simply impossible on older Nvidia hardware and on competing hardware of the time. When playing a game that supported those, it looked like more of a leap forward than the article suggests.