Nvidia · 1999
Vanta
The Vanta (Nvidia) is a budget graphics card released in 1999, based on the NV5 architecture.
The Vanta (Nvidia) is a budget-oriented graphics card released on March 22, 1999. It is based on the NV5 architecture and uses the NV5 GPU chip fabricated on a 250 nm process. The card features 2 shading units and a base clock of 100 MHz. It comes with 8 GB of SDR memory on a 64-bit bus, providing a memory bandwidth of 1.0 GB/s. The Vanta supports DirectX 6.0 and OpenGL 1.2. It is available with AGP 4x, AGP 2x, and PCI bus interfaces.
Specifications
| Architecture unverified | NV5 |
|---|---|
| GPU chip unverified | NV5 |
| Process node unverified | 250 nm |
| Shading units unverified | 2 |
| Base clock unverified | 100 MHz |
| Memory size unverified | 8 GB |
| Memory type unverified | SDR |
| Memory bus unverified | 64 bit |
| Memory bandwidth unverified | 1.0 GB/s |
| Bus interface unverified | AGP 4x, AGP 2x, PCI |
| DirectX support unverified | 6.0 |
| OpenGL support unverified | 1.2 |
| Release date unverified | 1999-03-22 |
| Release year unverified | 1999 |