Nvidia STG

The STG was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched in September 1995. Built on the 500 nm process, and based on the NV1 graphics processor, in its STG2000X-B variant, the card supports DirectX 1.0. Since STG does not support DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, it might not be able to run all the latest games. The NV1 graphics processor is a relatively small chip with a die area of only 90 mm² and 1 million transistors. It features 1 pixel shader and 0 vertex shaders, 1 texture mapping unit and 1 ROP. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support). NVIDIA has paired 1 MB FPM memory with the STG, which are connected using a 64-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 75 MHz, memory is running at 50 MHz.

Being a single-slot card, the NVIDIA STG does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 2 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x VGA, 1x DB13W3. STG is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI interface. The card measures 168 mm in length, and features a single-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 249 US Dollars.