GeForce 256 was, technically, the world's first GPU as it was the first single GPU "with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second" - according to NVIDIA. It's manufactured with a 220nm technology and offers 4 Pixel Shaders (not to be confused with today's Shader Processing Units), 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs, on a 128-bit interface of DDR. The central unit runs at 120MHz and the memory clock operates at 166MHz.
Obviously, none of today's games are playable.
| Popular Game System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Min. | Rec. |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 28900% | 37233% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 21900% | 34350% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 19233% | 38233% |
| Genshin Impact | 10500% | 37567% |
| eFootball PES 2021 | 17233% | 18900% |
| Mafia: Definitive Edition | 16233% | 53900% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 32567% | 36233% |
| FIFA 21 | 13733% | 18900% |
| Marvel's Avengers | 17233% | 35567% |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator | 33233% | 33233% |
