Thus, users can adapt their PCs to new industry standards and improved algorithms merely by upgrading the Mpact's device drivers and mediaware modules. Nvidia NV1 Nvidia wants your games. This chip is designed to improve the game experience significantly. If early demonstrations are any indicator, it will. The 3-D video accelerator is the most interesting part of the chip.
Computers are good at generating straight lines, but curves present a problem.
The NV1 is more clever than that. Put simply, it curves the sides of its polygons, so it doesn't need as many to make curves smooth. Fewer polygons mean fewer calculations and faster 3-D acceleration. The NV1 picks up extra speed by decreasing the number of control points required by the host CPU to move through 3-D space. Its resolution is something more like plus or minus 1 pixel.