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GeForce Tech Demos
Reflections RTX Tech Demo
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Originally released for: GeForce RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards
Experience advanced ray-traced reflections in a photo-realistic environment, and accelerate performance with Deep Learning Super Sampling
Atomic Heart RTX Tech Demo
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Originally released for: GeForce RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards
An early look at Mundfish's graphically-advanced Atomic Heart, which is enhanced by the addition of advanced ray-traced reflections and shadows, and accelerated by the inclusion of Deep Learning Super Sampling.
Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition DLSS Benchmark
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Originally released for: GeForce RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards
Deep Learning Super-Sampling increases performance significantly in FFXV, whilst simultaneously improving image quality. Learn more, see the improvements, and download the benchmark yourself.
G-SYNC Pendulum Demo
Release Date: October 29, 2013
With the Pendulum demo, see how NVIDIA G-SYNC changed gaming by eliminating tearing and minimizing stutter and lag, giving gamers the smoothest, fastest gaming experience.
Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Demo
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 900-Series Graphics Cards
Powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and NVIDIA’s Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), we explored the Apollo 11 landing site and put the landmark photo of Buzz Aldrin descending to the moon’s surface to the test.
“Ira”, Lifelike Human Face Rendering
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Originally released for: original GeForce GTX TITAN
Ira represented a big leap forward in capturing and rendering human facial expression in real time, and gave us a glimpse of the realism we could look forward to in our favorite game characters.
Endless City
Released November 9, 2010
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 400 and 500-Series Graphics Cards
Procedurally-generated tessellation enabled the creation of a massive, complex city, the likes of which hadn’t been seen before.
Alien vs. Triangles
Released November 9, 2010
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 400 and 500-Series Graphics Cards
In this heated battle, "multi-dimensional tessellation" was used to show realistic surface damage to the Alien’s skin. By using four displacement maps as damage layers, the Alien’s skin could show damage such as blisters and wounds, depending on what damage it had taken.
Stone Giant
Released August 5, 2010
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Stone Giant showed how tessellation could be used to create scenes and characters of almost unlimited detail.
Supersonic Sled
Released July 3, 2010
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 400-Series Graphics Cards
Taking advantage of PhysX, CUDA, DirectX 11, and 3D Vision, Supersonic Sled strapped you on a high-powered test rocket and hurtled you down a six-mile-long track in the Nevada desert at speeds in excess of 800 miles an hour. Every moving object in the demo was physically simulated using PhysX and CUDA.
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Released June 7, 2010
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 400-Series Graphics Cards
Heaven was a DirectX 11 benchmark where you could explore a mythical village floating in the cloudy sky. The buildings and structures in the village were highly detailed and realistic
Design Garage
Released March 26, 2010
Originally released for: GeForce GTX 400, 500, and 600-Series Graphics Cards
Design Garage allowed users to interactively create incredibly photo-realistic images of some of the fastest and most exclusive vehicles on the road using Ray Tracing.
Human Head
Released May 21, 2007
Originally released for: GeForce 8-Series Graphics Cards
'Human Head' delivered a startling leap forward in realism for real-time characters.
Cascades
Released February 14, 2007
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Froggy
Released December 14, 2006
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The Froggy demo allowed you to massage, pull, poke, prod and slap this high-strung amphibian.
Box of Smoke
Released December 14, 2006
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As its name suggests, this demo is a box full of smoke.
GeoForms
Released June 21, 2006
Originally released for: GeForce 7-Series Graphics Cards
In a dimension where objects were shaped by sound, these ‘GeoForms’ expressed themselves by moving like liquid to the beat.
Mad Mod Mike
Released July 12, 2005,
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Mad Mod Mike was a community hero that would slip into bedrooms at night and transform the decrepit, underpowered computers of deserving gamers into raging performance beasts.
Blobby Dancer for AMD64
Released July 26, 2004,
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Blobby Dancer for AMD64 was a liquid-like dancer that moved and grooved in a surreal disco world of music, light, and color.
Timbury
Released July 21, 2004
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Timbury was an odd man that demonstrated that the current GPUs could handle 32-bit or 16-bit floating point data with ease.
Clear Sailing
Released July 21, 2004
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To demonstrate how powerful vertex and fragment shaders could create effects that were not possible before, the Clear Sailing demo sent a pirate ship to outrun the most feared captain of the royal navy.
Vulcan
Released August 15, 2003
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Vulcan, the god of fire, toiled at his anvil forging the metals of the earth when one of the sparks of his forge took flight.
Toys
Released May 1, 2003
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Toys was a world of imagination where two young boys staged their own 'War of the Worlds' with props from their toy box.
Ogre
Released May 1, 2003
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This 'Dancing Ogre' was a real-time rendition of a movie originally created by Spellcraft Studios titled 'Yeah! the movie'.
Last Chance Gas Ultra
Released April 1, 2003
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Last Chance Gas Ultra was designed to allow
Time Machine
Released April 1, 2003
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Using the power of the programmable GeForce FX pixel engine, the Time Machine took you through the history of a neglected 1950’s pickup truck. By blending a variety of material surface effects into a single shader program you could watch as damage and neglect turned the truck from pristine condition to an old rust bucket.
Squid
Released February 1, 2002
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Squid featured one of the largest and strangest deep-sea creatures anyone has ever seen.
Tidepool
Released February 1, 2002,
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NVIDIA’s nFiniteFX II Engine brought the rendering of water to a whole new level with Tidepool.
Bugs
Released February 1, 2002
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The Bugs demo used a swarm of alien bugs to demonstrate the beauty of our accelerated antialiasing hardware.
ChameleonMark
Released February 1, 2002
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ChameleonMark was a performance tool for measuring pixel shader performance for a variety of shaders.
Zoltar the Magnificent
Released February 1, 2001
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Zoltar the Magnificent was an animated fortune teller that would deliver a critical snippet of advice at the press of a button.
Chameleon
Released February 1, 2001
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This nfiniteFX engine demo showed a chameleon that could do more than simply change the color of its skin, thanks to the power of shading effects.
Wolfman
Released February 1, 2001
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Wolfman was the first demo to use real-time volumetric fur rendering on a fully-animated character model.
Creature
Released February 1, 2001
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The Creature demo showcased lighting and per-pixel shading like never before in a beautifully-lit underwater scene.
Grove
Released July 1, 2000
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Grove featured multiple trees and unlimited light sources to showcase the transformation and lighting abilities of the current generation of GeForce GPUs.
Grass
Released June 1, 2000
Originally released for: GeForce 256 Graphics Cards
With up to 10,000 individual blades of grass and multi-pass
Crystal Ball
Released June 1, 2000
Originally released for: GeForce 256 Graphics Cards
The Crystal Ball demo showcased the rendering abilities of the second-generation T&L engine with a highly-detailed castle.
Toy Soldier
Released June 1, 2000
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50 toy soldiers march and cast real-time shadows and reflections in this demo.
Small Pond
Released April 1, 2000
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The Small Pond demo showcased
Principles of Shading
Released April 1, 2000
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The Principles of Shading demo compared the varying levels of realism as you mixed and matched textures on NVIDIA's 3D logo.
Bubble
Released January 1, 2000
Originally released for: GeForce 256 Graphics Cards
An undulating blob demonstrated how Cube Environment Mapping allowed for amazing reflection effects.
Lightning
Released January 1, 2000
Originally released
The Lightning Engine was used to create realistic lighting and sparks on a metal plate to demonstrate real-time lighting and per-pixel lighting.