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. |
| Valorant | 1233% | 3400% |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21900% | 48900% |
| Call of Duty Warzone | 19233% | 35567% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 33233% | 54400% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 21900% | 48900% |
| Doom Eternal | 36233% | 36233% |
| Minecraft: Dungeons | 16233% | 37567% |
| Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord | 13733% | 34233% |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator | 33233% | 33233% |
| Death Stranding | 21900% | 48900% |
