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Created page with "'''Weitek Corporation''' was an American manufacturer of math coprocessors and, later, (S)VGA-compatible display drivers, founded in 1981. Nvidia licensed the company's SVGA core (most likely based off of the Weitek W5186) and incorporated it into the Riva 128, where it sat unmodified until at least GeForce 4. The core was widely praised for its extremely high DOS performance, with Doom in Mode X running at over 70 fps (twice its actual frame-limited..." |
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'''Weitek Corporation''' was an American manufacturer of math coprocessors and, later, (S)VGA-compatible display drivers, founded in 1981. [[Nvidia]] licensed the company's SVGA core (most likely based off of the Weitek W5186) and incorporated it into the [[NV3|Riva 128]], where it sat unmodified until at least [[NV25|GeForce 4]]. The core was widely praised for its extremely high DOS performance, with Doom in Mode X running at over 70 fps (twice its actual frame-limited speed). | '''Weitek Corporation''' was an American manufacturer of math coprocessors and, later, (S)VGA-compatible display drivers, founded in 1981. [[Nvidia]] licensed the company's SVGA core (most likely based off of the Weitek W5186) and incorporated it into the [[NV3|Riva 128]], where it sat, effectively unmodified, until at least [[NV25|GeForce 4]]. The core was widely praised for its extremely high DOS performance, with Doom in Mode X running at over 70 fps (twice its actual frame-limited speed). | ||
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Weitek Corporation was an American manufacturer of math coprocessors and, later, (S)VGA-compatible display drivers, founded in 1981. Nvidia licensed the company's SVGA core (most likely based off of the Weitek W5186) and incorporated it into the Riva 128, where it sat, effectively unmodified, until at least GeForce 4. The core was widely praised for its extremely high DOS performance, with Doom in Mode X running at over 70 fps (twice its actual frame-limited speed).