Overview

• Nvidia is giving away five historic GeForce GPUs, each signed by CEO Jensen Huang, to build excitement for its CES 2025 announcements.
• The first two GPUs revealed are the GeForce 256, the world's first GPU, and the GeForce 8800 Ultra, the first CUDA-enabled GPU.
• Participants can enter the giveaway by commenting #GeForceGreats on Nvidia's posts on X, with one GPU unveiled each day leading up to CES.
• The GeForce 256, released in 1999, introduced features like a Transform and Lighting Engine, revolutionizing 3D rendering by offloading tasks from CPUs.
• The 2007 GeForce 8800 Ultra marked a shift to CUDA technology, enabling GPUs to perform general-purpose computing tasks beyond graphics acceleration.