Post #2846375
2026-05-24 20:13 UTC
RE: https://chaos.social/@Natanox/116630882386828954
lol I had a 3dfx card before nvidia ever *made* a gpu. I believe Voodoo cards were the first 3D graphics accelerators as we think of them today, at least for PCs[1].
I seem to recall that *maybe* nvidia coined the term GPU? I know they weren’t called that at the start.
[1] #SiliconGraphics was doing fancy stuff way before PCs of course
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@zcutlip@hachyderm.io 2026-05-24 20:16
Nope I was wrong. Sony 1994: > The term "GPU" was coined by Sony in reference to the 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba) in the PlayStation video game console, released in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit?wprov=sfti1#1990s