Editing GeForce (section)

== Name origin ==
The "GeForce" name originated from a contest held by Nvidia in early 1999 called "Name That Chip". The company called out to the public to name the successor to the [[RIVA TNT2]] line of graphics boards. There were over 12,000 entries received and seven winners received a RIVA TNT2 Ultra graphics card as a reward.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nvidia.com/namingcontest | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000608011648/http://www.nvidia.com/namingcontest | title = Winners of the Nvidia Naming Contest | year = 1999 | work = [[Nvidia]] | archive-date = June 8, 2000 | access-date = May 28, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Taken | first = Femme | url = http://tweakers.net/nieuws/1967/nVidia-Name-that-chip-contest.html | title = Nvidia "Name that chip" contest | work = [[Tweakers.net]] | date = April 17, 1999 | access-date = May 28, 2007 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311065215/http://tweakers.net/nieuws/1967/nVidia-Name-that-chip-contest.html | archive-date = March 11, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Brian Burke, senior PR manager at Nvidia, told ''[[Maximum PC]]'' in 2002 that "GeForce" originally stood for "Geometry Force" since [[GeForce 256]] was the first GPU for personal computers to calculate the [[Transform, clipping, and lighting|transform-and-lighting]] geometry, offloading that function from the [[Central processing unit|CPU]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=''Maximum PC'' issue April 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DwIAAAAAMBAJ |format=PDF |magazine=Maximum PC |date=April 2002  |page=29 |access-date=2022-10-11 |via=Google Books |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123200945/https://books.google.com/books?id=DwIAAAAAMBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>