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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256
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Claim
GeForce 256 SDR Oct 11, 1999 NV10 17
Correction
The table’s transistor count is wrong. NVIDIA’s own historical materials list GeForce 256 at about 22–23 million transistors, not 17 million.
Full reasoning
The specification table assigns the GeForce 256 a transistor count of 17 million, but NVIDIA’s own historical documents do not support that number.
- An NVIDIA presentation titled “Evolution of GPUs” lists “GeForce 256 – 23M Transistors – 1999.”
- A later NVIDIA training deck likewise labels “GeForce 256” as “23M xtors.”
- NVIDIA has also used 22 million in another historical slide deck, but that still contradicts the article’s 17 million figure.
So while NVIDIA’s retrospective materials vary slightly between 22M and 23M, they agree that 17M is incorrect for GeForce 256.
3 sources
- Evolution of GPUs (NVIDIA presentation)
GeForce 256 – 23M Transistors - 1999
- Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) (NVIDIA training deck)
GeForce® 256 23M xtors
- NVISION 2008 Keynote (NVIDIA)
GeForce 256 22 Million Transistors