Released on October 11, 1999, the card was the first to carry Nvidia's 'GeForce' brand name. But its biggest claim to fame is being the world's first GPU3D game accelerators existed before its release, but the term GPU, or graphics processing unit, did not. Nvidia defined the term as "a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second."