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	RIVA TNT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RIVA TNT (For TwiN Texel) was a 3D graphics chipset manufactured by NVIDIA.
		The TNT was designed as a followup to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2.
		Like the RIVA 128 but unlike the Voodoo2, it was a single chip solution for both 2D and 3D.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riva_TNT (201 words)

	RIVA 128 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RIVA 128 was a 3D graphics chipset manufactured by NVIDIA.
		Released in late 1997, the RIVA 128 was one of the first generation of consumer 3D chips.
		The RIVA 128 supported 4MiB of RAM on a 128-bit bus, and like all consumer cards of its generation, had a single pixel pipeline and was limited to a 16-bit (Highcolour) pixel format and a 16-bit Z-buffer in 3D mode.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riva_128 (221 words)

	3D Links/ATI Reviews
		STB Velocity 128 Boot states that there is more to 3D than framerate for Nvidia Riva 128 chips.
		Riva 128 threaded fallout Riva does have fast performance which gamers thrive on...if you wish to read the 195 posts...click above.
		I also have a Riva 128 board, and it IS fast, but the texture cracking is still bad in almost all Direct3d games, even with the latest drivers, and it noticeably detracts from gameplay.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/rchau/testimonials.html (6021 words)

	Riva 128 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To be fair however, I was working for Real 3D at the time, and it was my job to help bury NVidia and the Riva 128 (you see who was buried don't you).
		The Riva 128 was a very fast chip, and compared to software rendering, it made games look great in comparison to software rasterized games at 320 X 200!
		Texturing was very poor quality (remember, I was used to a i740 and the R3D-100, and a very powerful image generator, the core of which was the same as a Sega commercial arcade game).
	www.starstonesoftware.com /OpenGL/riva128.htm (277 words)

	Business Wire: NVIDIA RIVA 128 "Star 3D Performer" on PC Magazine Editors' Choice Micron Millenia XKU 300; Recommended ...
		The RIVA 128 was billed by PC Magazine as "the star of the 3-D performer of this roundup." In addition to excellent 2D performance, the RIVA 128 turned in scores on 3D graphics WinMark and AGP tests nearly double those of the competition.
		The RIVA 128 3D multimedia accelerator is the first in a family of highly integrated graphics products that is targeted at the performance segment of the mainstream graphics market.
		RIVA 128 is a trademark of NVIDIA Corporation and SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_Sept_15/ai_19750716 (978 words)

	Mentor Graphics VStationPRO Success Stories
		The RIVA 128 is a 4 Mbytes 128-bit single pixel type graphics chip, which was the world's first mainstream real-time interactive video and animation accelerator when it was introduced in 1997.
		The RIVA TNT has continued the evolution of next generation 3D processors by including 16 MBytes of RAM, 2X performance, and a new architecture with advanced features.
		One of the strongest endorsements came from Mercury Research, a leading research and consulting firm, which reported that RIVA TNT is the world's fastest 3D processor, and also included both RIVA 128 and RIVA 128ZX on its top 10 list.
	www.mentor.com /vstation/success/nvidia_makes_ikos_a_key_part.html (1684 words)

	ST \| SGS-THOMSON Announces the Industry's Fastest 3D Multimedia Accelerator \| W596P
		RIVA 128ZX builds on the success of SGS-THOMSON's RIVA 128™, which has become the performance 3D Multimedia Accelerator of choice among the leading OEMs and Add-In card manufacturers worldwide.
		Following the success of the RIVA 128, SGS-THOMSON is planning to use two of its high volume, deep sub-micron wafer fabs to manufacture RIVA 128ZX.
		The RIVA 128ZX now adds a 2X AGP interface, 8Mbyte frame buffer interface, and a 250MHz Palette-DAC to the exceptional 2D, 3D graphics and video performance of the RIVA 128.
	www.st.com /stonline/press/news/year1998/w596p.htm (773 words)

	Success Stories
		When introduced, the RIVA 128 was the most powerful 3D graphics accelerator on the market.
		The RIVA 128 was a joint development effort by NVIDIA and SGS-THOMSON.
		The high-performance Designware IP components enabled the RIVA 128 to perform five billion operations per second and run at an impressive 100 MHz.
	www.synopsys.com /products/success/nvidia_ss.html (819 words)

	PlanetHardware - A Member of The GameSpy Network
		STB was highly successful in the OEM marketplace with their Velocity 128 card, and this fact made them a nice target months later when 3dfx looked for a partner they could use to penetrate the tough OEM marketplace.
		Its visuals were horrible by today's pixel-accurate graphics, its OpenGL driver needed many revisions to achieve the speed that it finally provided, and with 3dfx's hammer lock on their proprietary Glide API, the Riva 128 had to wait for Microsoft's DirectX SDK to fully mature.
		In terms of historical value though, the Riva 128 was the first musket shot from a company that now regularly lobs nuclear weapons with a constant mantra of "a new product every six months" emanating from the top down.
	www.planethardware.com /features/articles/early_3d/index4.shtml (347 words)

	The Adrenaline Vault Review of STB Velocity 128 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this case, the Velocity 128 relies on a new chipset, the nVIDIA RIVA 128, to help fulfill its promise.
		Also, the Velocity 128 actually uses system memory as texture memory, so the 4 Mb of memory on-board is strictly frame buffer memory.
		The RIVA 128 was designed for DirectDraw and Direct3D and its performance shines.
	www.avault.com /hardware/print_review.asp?review=velocity128 (1389 words)

	ST \| NEC Selects SGS-THOMSON's RIVA 128 3D Multimedia Accelerator for Its Next Generation PC98-NX Series of Personal ...
		"RIVA 128 has catapulted to the top ranks among board and system OEMs in both its PCI and AGP incarnations," said Andy Fischer, Senior Analyst at Jon Peddie Associates of Tiburon, CA.
		RIVA 128 combines advanced interactive 3D graphics acceleration and industry leading 2D graphics acceleration, with superior video and imaging capabilities into a single-chip mainstream Multimedia Accelerator.
		Capable of 20 billion operations per second, and using a 128-bit 'fast and wide' architecture, the RIVA 128 complements Intel's Pentium II and AGP platform to meet the immense computational requirements of interactive visual computing.
	www.st.com /stonline/press/news/year1997/c625p.htm (582 words)

	Business Wire: NVIDIA's RIVA 128 Multimedia Accelerator Selected by Micron Electronics; RIVA 128 Provides 2D, 3D and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On board the Diamond Viper is NVIDIA's new RIVA 128 multimedia accelerator chip which offers the latest graphics acceleration technology for the mass market.
		Combining 2D, 3D and multimedia features in one chip, the RIVA 128 provides Diamond's Viper media accelerator with a 5 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) set-up engine and 15 billion operations per second image processor on a single chip to off-load graphics processing from the PC processor.
		Editor Notes: Please note that the recommended way of writing NVIDIA and RIVA 128 is all capitals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_August_26/ai_19697016 (789 words)

	Gamasutra - Hard Bytes [02.27.98] - Nvidia announces new version of Riva 128
		New capabilities of the Riva 128ZX, in comparison to the first generation device, are support for AGP 2X operation with sideband addressing; support for up to 8 Mbytes of frame buffer memory (8 or 16 Mbit SGRAM), and the inclusion of a 250 MHz RAMDAC (up from 230 MHz).
		In addition, the company has announced new enhanced ZX software drivers which are compatible with the original Riva 128 as well.
		When coupled with the Riva 128ZX, the new drivers deliver 3D WinBench 98 results (as quoted by Nvidia) of 721 on a 300 MHz Pentium II, and 781 on a 333 MHz Pentium II.
	www.gamasutra.com /newswire/industry_analysis/hard_bytes/19980227b.htm (387 words)

	AnandTech: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Pro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since the RIVA 128, NVIDIA has been on a strict 6 month product cycle, and generally, this has led to a totally new NVIDIA product in the fall, followed by a "spring refresh," where the original product is updated and released as a new one.
		The RIVA 128 ZX followed the original RIVA 128 by adding support for 8MB of memory and AGP 2X support.
		We saw the "spring refresh" again with the RIVA TNT2, released earlier this year as the follow-up to the TNT.
	www.anandtech.com /html/review_display.cfm?document=1057 (506 words)

	Dimension 128 - RIVA 128 / TNT information & news! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But that joy was nothing compared to the utter ecstasy that was induced when NVIDIA released new drivers for the RIVA 128 (version 2.83) that featured a wonderful new Open GL ICD that warmed the hearts of GLDoom fans the world over.
		Thus was born the RIVA 128 reference driver, version ES1.
		The transparent floors problem in the Riva 128/TNT is caused by mishandling the polygon_offset command in the Opengl driver.
	www.d128.com /archive/dec98_1.html (3998 words)

	RIVA 128 Video Adapters Are Incompatible with Multiple Display Feature
		When you add a secondary video adapter to a computer that uses a RIVA 128 video adapter as the primary video adapter, the computer may stop responding (hang).
		This behavior is caused by an incompatible driver that is used by the RIVA 128 video adapter.
		RIVA 128 video adapters are not supported for use with the multiple display feature.
	support.microsoft.com /support/kb/articles/Q205/9/33.ASP?...&SPR=W98SE (213 words)

	Indepth Glide Wrapper Comparison
		Riva 128 users, though might have to use Clide or instead for Gl²ide.
		Some RIVA 128 owners on the forums told me that Gl²ide was slow for them as well and they used Clide because of the less sound skips and the faster game play.
		The Riva 128 is a marvelous chipset, it is the most value card at its time, considering the price vs. performance.
	www.glideunderground.com /articles/article_indepthwrappercomparison.html (3359 words)

	Business Wire: NVIDIA's RIVA 128 3D Multimedia Accelerator Now... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NVIDIA's RIVA 128 3D Multimedia Accelerator Now Offered in New Dell Dimension Systems; RIVA 128 Combines Real-time 3D and Fast-Action 2D Acceleration in One Chip.
		"The RIVA 128 directly addresses the demand for an integrated multimedia accelerator that delivers cutting-edge performance in 2D, 3D and digital video," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA.
		STB's new Velocity 128 multimedia accelerator card with the NVIDIA RIVA 128 chip on board delivers true 128-bit multimedia acceleration with full-speed polygon setup and pixel rendering for both PCI and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) based systems.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19705049&refid=holomed_1 (652 words)

	Riva TNT FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Another difference in the RIVA 128 is its auto per-polygon mipmapping.
		New to the RIVA ZX and TNT is anti-aliasing.
		The Z-buffering on the RIVA 128 was limited to 16bit.
	www.mwd-derhardwareratgeber.de /html/news/news_58_main.htm (862 words)

	GamersU Reviews - Velocity 4400 AGP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NVIDIA released their RIVA 128 chip last year.
		The most oft-discussed shortcoming of the RIVA 128 chip, poor visual quality, has been addressed, and we did not find any artifacting problems during our battery of tests with the Velocity 4400.
		The RIVA TNT and Voodoo2 can accomplish the same in a single processor cycle, boosting 3D game performance substantially.
	www.gamersu.com /Reviews/hardware.asp?id=27 (1000 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
		We reviewed this RIVA 128 card when it first came out, but we wanted to include a RIVA card as a checkpoint.
		As is becoming well known now, the RIVA 128 scales up with clock speed very well.
		The RIVA has developed a reputation for having less than optimal image quality.
	www.gamespot.com /features/3dcards2/page9.html (272 words)

	nVIDIA FAQ
		The RIVA 128 architecture falls back to software 3D rendering for 24 bit true color displays.
		Sometimes after installing a RIVA 128 ZX card in a Windows 98 system a...
		for most version of Windows 98, normal plug and play should should locate a RIVA 128 driver in the standard CAB files that were used to install the OS.
	www.zaptech.com /commentary/nvidia/faq.shtml (1256 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to figures from JPA vice president Andy Fischer, Nvidia shipped 2.5 million Riva 128 units in its first seven months on the market, while fourth-quarter PowerVR sales are conservatively estimated at greater than 250,000 units.
		In its bid to dominate this fall's performance-PC lineup, Nvidia's Riva 128ZX chip addresses some of the limitations of its predecessor by raising the RAMDAC's clock speed from 230 MHz to 250 MHz, boosting the speed of the AGP interface from 1X to 2X, and doubling the addressable memory to 8 Mbytes.
		By comparison, the Riva 128 scored a 3DWinbench mark of 553, according to analysts' reports.
	www.my-esm.com /section/030298/semicon3.html (775 words)

	WinDrivers Computer Tech Support Forums - Riva 128 Problem
		I replaced the Riva 128 card with an identical one that I know works and the new one shows the display in the upper 1/4 of the display almost as if the display is trying to show larger than the monitor can handle.
		Tried the STB Riva 128 drivers that were in WinME (original drivers).
		I did try the 2nd Riva 128 (the one that scrunched the screen up into 1/4 of the monitor) in another machine and it worked fine.
	forums.windrivers.com /showthread.php?t=51515 (778 words)

	The Adrenaline Vault Review of Canopus Total3D 128V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The results were also higher than the similar STB Velocity 128, which may be a function of the motherboard used in testing.
		Canopus states that other nVIDIA RIVA 128-based cards are only capable of 30 fps instead of 60 fps when the TV output is used.
		The nVIDIA RIVA 128 chipset really has a chance to shine, whether it is in 2D GUI, Direct3D, or TV output.
	www.avault.com /hardware/print_review.asp?review=total3d128v (1325 words)

	AnandTech: Canopus Total3D 128V Riva 128 Accelerator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By looking at the faults of the cards the competition had under development at the time Canopus chose the smart route in the design process of the 128V, the engineers at Canopus decided to exploit the faults of their competitors to the furthest extent possible, and this they did with style, sophistication, and skill.
		Performance wise the Riva 128 chipset has been proven time and time again, there is very little room for improvement in that category so it would be senseless and poor marketing to rely on that aspect of a product alone to achieve a high rate of success in the industry.
		Not to say that Canopus' attempt at the Riva 128 market was a failed one as far as performance is concerned, actually the truth is far from that.
	www.anandtech.com /showdoc.html?i=75 (1031 words)

	Gamasutra - Hard Bytes [01.23.98] - Nvidia ships over one million RIVA 128 3D graphics processors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nvidia (Sunnyvale, CA) has reached over one million shipments of the RIVA 128 3D graphics processor chip, thanks to the company’s strong list of OEM customers including Dell, Gateway 2000, Micron, NEC, Diamond Multimedia and STB.
		Introduced in late Q3, the RIVA 128 has had remarkable success.
		The company is making a strong showing in the performance segment and outshipping most of their competitors.
	www.gamasutra.com /newswire/industry_analysis/hard_bytes/19980123b.htm (101 words)

	Riva
		The current Riva cards have 4 MB frame-buffer memory and no on-board texture memory.
		This is why the AGP configurations are much preferred for this card-much depends on the bus data rates, and the 66-100 MHz 64-bit AGP bus is 2-4 times faster than the 33 MHz 32-bit PCI-bus.
		"Known Limitations: The NVidia Riva 128 chip used on the Diamond Viper V330 requires an IRQ to function correctly.
	www.avsim.com /fsbench/riva.htm (744 words)

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