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NVIDIA: Display Adapters and System Chipsets
NVIDIA (California, USA) develops, manufacturers, and markets graphics chipsets and video cards for PCs, laptops, gaming consoles, and professional workstations. They're best known for their PC motherboard designs and graphics cards for PC-based video gaming. NVIDIA's graphics and motherboard chipsets are found in hundreds of worldwide PC brands including Dell, HP, Apple, Acer, Gateway, IBM, and more. NVIDIA's main market competition comes from fellow graphics card manufacturer ATI.
NVIDIA provides fairly good support for their graphics card and motherboard chipsets in terms of new drivers for existing and growing operating systems like Linux. A substantial increase in 3D performance is often noted as NVIDIA releases newer, more efficient driver versions. Typically, NVIDIA drivers are released in packages referred to as Detonator drivers. These releases usually include updates for all OS versions.
No doubt you'll recognize many of NVIDIA's top product brand names:
- GeForce & GeForce Go (mobile version)
- RIVA 128
- RIVA TNT
- Quadro (professional workstations)
- Tesla
- GoForce
- nForce (motherboard chipset brand)
Here are links to downloads of the most common NVIDIA drivers for both Windows XP and Vista:
NVIDIA GeForce (v. 4-9) Video Cards
- GeForce Drivers for Windows XP & XP Media Center
- GeForce Drivers for Windows XP 64-bit
- GeForce Drivers for Windows Vista 32-bit
- GeForce Drivers for Windows Vista 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce Go Mobile Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro Workstation Graphics Drivers
- Quadro Pro Drivers for Windows XP
- Quadro Pro Drivers for Windows XP 64-bit
- Quadro Pro Drivers for Windows Vista 32-bit
- Quadro Pro for Windows Vista 64-bit
NVIDIA nForce Integrated Motherboard Chipset
Note: We always recommend users skip the hassles of trying to find their own hardware model numbers and use our automatic driver update tool, Driver Wizard.
