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GeForce 256 and the Moment the GPU Became a Consumer Graphics Category

NVIDIA's 1999 GeForce 256 integrated hardware transform and lighting with rasterization and aggressively popularized the term GPU, helping move geometry work from the CPU into a mass-market graphics processor.

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Programmable Shaders and the Shift from Fixed Graphics Pipelines to Code

Programmable vertex and fragment shaders replaced rigid graphics state with application-defined programs, turning GPU rendering effects into software.

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