NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT Drives Pentium III Systems

NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT Drives Pentium III Systems is the story today, and it is the kind of late-April 1999 news blast that makes the pre-E3 season feel like someone kicked the hornet nest. NVIDIA Corporation said today that top OEMs Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Micron, NEC, CompUSA, ProGen and Quantex are heading to stores NVIDIA’s well-known RIVA TNT as the standard 3D graphics processor for all new Pentium III systems. NVIDIA’s RIVA TNT 3D graphics processor has been optimized for Intel Pentium III processor-based PCs. When combined with the “Detonator” software, the RIVA TNT allows OEMs to offer best in class CPU and graphics processing power for high-performance PC users. NVIDIA has added support for the Pentium III processor’s Streaming SIMD Extensions to take full advantage of the capabilities of the Pentium III processor.

For PC players, this is the kind of spec-sheet news that either matters immediately or becomes the thing everyone argues about once the drivers land. Either way, keep an eye on it.