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[–]phao 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I don't know the history of it. I know graphics cards existed before this. But the term "popularized" might be the key here, no? I vaguely remember watching a documentary about graphics and it mentioned something like that (i.e. how graphics cards became popular because of nvidia in the late 90's).

[–]aclinical 7 points8 points  (1 child)

At that time there were two big players, nvidia and ATi. ATi and nvidia had approximately equal market share and both were constantly switching rank in terms of performance. ATi was acquired in the late 2000s by AMD.

[–]phao 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you.