| Branding | NV3 |
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| Architecture | NV3 (original QTM) |
| Announcement date | 6 March 1996 (cancelled)<ref>https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/100304.pdf (Microprocessor Report, 6 March 1996) |
| PCI vendor ID | 10de |
| PCI device ID | presumably 0018 |
| Quadratic texture mapping (1993-1996) | |
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| Fixed function, no HW T&L (1997-2000) | |
| Celsius: Fixed function, HW T&L (1999-2001) |
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| Kelvin: Programmable shaders (2001) | |
| Rankine (2003) |
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| Curie (2004) | |
| Tesla: CUDA, unified shaders and GPGPU (2006-2010) | |
| Fermi and beyond: GPGPU scaling (2010-2018) |
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| Hardware-accelerated raytracing (2018-2022?) | |
| AI-focused cores (2022-present) |
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