SANTA CLARA, CA (Feb. 28, 2001) -- NVIDIA Corporation announced that the NVIDIA GeForce3 graphics processor unit (GPU) has secured design wins with the industry's top PC OEMs. The adoption by leading OEMs underscores the technical innovations of the NVIDIA GeForce3 and ensures that PC users will gain early access to a wave of next-generation capabilities.

In coming weeks, the following PC OEMs and add-in card manufacturers will be offering products based on the NVIDIA GeForce3:

PC OEMS

Add-in Card Manufacturers

System Builders

About the NVIDIA GeForce3
The NVIDIA GeForce3 GPU integrates the NVIDIA nfiniteFX engine and Lightspeed Memory Architecture to bring environments and characters to life. Game developers take advantage of the fully programmable Vertex and Pixel Shaders of the nfiniteFX engine to create a virtually infinite number of special effects and custom looks. The GeForce3 is the world's most advanced GPU with more than 57 million transistors and is able to perform more than 800 billion operations per second and 76 billion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The GeForce3 GPU achieves an astounding 3.2 billion antialiased samples per second fill rate -- more than four times the performance of the award-winning GeForce2 Ultra and more than seven times the processing power of any competitive consumer graphics product. As do all of the GeForce family products, GeForce3 drives the most extreme resolutions and color depths of up to 2048 x 1536 x 32.The GeForce3 architecture has been chosen as the reference platform for the Microsoft DirectX 8 application programming interface (API) and the Microsoft next generation game console, Xbox.

Major features of the NVIDIA GeForce3 GPU include:

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:NVDA), based in Santa Clara, CA., creates advanced graphics and multimedia processing technology for the consumer and professional computing markets. For more information, please visit nvidia.com.