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These APIs have also proved vital to computer graphics hardware manufacturers, as they provide a way for programmers to access the hardware in an abstract way, while still taking advantage of the special hardware of any specific graphics card. The first 3D graphics framework was probably Core, published by the ACM in 1977.
Nvidia RTX (also known as Nvidia GeForce RTX under the GeForce brand) is a professional visual computing platform created by Nvidia, primarily used in workstations for designing complex large-scale models in architecture and product design, scientific visualization, energy exploration, and film and video production, as well as being used in mainstream PCs for gaming.
LGPL-2.0-or-later: Cube Engine: C++: 2001 CubeScript Yes 3D Windows, Linux, macOS: AssaultCube, Cube: zlib: Prior generation (means it has a successor), 2D grid-based system, optimized for outdoor not indoor maps Cube 2 Engine: C++: 2004 CubeScript Yes 3D Windows, Linux, macOS: Cube 2: Sauerbraten: zlib
All cards have a PCIe 2.0 x16 Bus interface. The base requirement for Vulkan 1.0 in terms of hardware features was OpenGL ES 3.1 which is a subset of OpenGL 4.3, which is supported on all Fermi and newer cards. Memory bandwidths stated in the following table refer to Nvidia reference designs.
RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti have a limited 8 lane PCI Express 4.0 bus interface. All other cards support the full 16 lanes. All other cards support the full 16 lanes. There is a slower (on average 1% slower according to a single review [ 16 ] so far) variant of the RTX 4070 with 20Gbps GDDR6 VRAM introduced in August 2024.
All the RTX 30 GPUs are made using the 8 nm Samsung node. [37] Only the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti support 2-way NVLink. RTX 3050 feature limited 8 lanes for the PCIe 4.0 bus interface. All other cards support the full ×16 bandwidth. Double-precision performance of the Ampere chips are 1/64 of single-precision performance.
The GeForce RTX, in the form of models 2080 and 2080 Ti, became the first consumer-oriented brand of graphics card that can perform ray tracing in real time, [41] and, in November 2018, Electronic Arts' Battlefield V became the first game to take advantage of its ray tracing capabilities, which it achieves via Microsoft's new API, DirectX ...
Lists of graphics cards follow. A graphics card, or graphics processing unit , is a specialized electronic circuit that rapidly manipulates and alters memory to build images in a frame buffer for output to a display.