Since most of you just want to know the features of the GeForce 256, here's a list of its features:

• 15M triangles/sec - sustained DMA, transform/clip/light, setup, rasterize and render rate.
• 4 Pixels per clock (4 pixel pipelines).
• 480M pixels/sec fill rate - 32 texture samples per clock, full speed 8-tap anisotropic filtering.
• 8 hardware lights.
• 350 MHz RAMDAC.
• Most feature complete for DX7 and OGL - Transform & Lighting, Cube environment mapping, projective textures, and texture compression.
• Will utilize 4x AGP performance with Fast Writes , which enables the CPU to send data directly to the GPU (1 GB/sec transfer rate), increasing overall performance and freeing the system memory bus for other functions.
• 256 bit rendering engine.
• Highest quality HDTV (High Definition Television) video playback.
• High Precision HDTV video overlay.
• 5 horizontal, 3 vertical taps.
• 8:1 up/down scaling.
• Independent hue, saturation and brightness controls in hardware.
• High bandwidth HDTV class video I/O.
• 16 bit video port.
• Full host port.
• Dedicated DMA video.
• Powerful HDTV motion compensation.
• Full frame rate DVD to 1080i resolution.
• Full precision subpixel accuracy to 1/16 pixel.