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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NVIDIA Release 80 Graphics Driver Boosts Performance And Increases Flexibility

Available for Download Today, the ForceWare Release 81.84 Graphics Driver Enables SLI Vender Mixing and Now Supports Mobile GPUs

BANGALORE, INDIA -October 5, 2005-NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today upgraded performance for millions of customers with the immediate availability of the NVIDIA ForceWare™ graphics driver Release 81.84. Available today at http://www.nzone.in, the Release 81.84 graphics driver features:

• Performance improvements on a variety of NVIDIA GPUs-including a performance boost of up to 15% for GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs in Battlefield 2, 5% improvement for GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs in Far Cry, and 5% for GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs running in SLI mode in Half Life 2
• Dual core CPU performance optimisations - including performance increases of up to 15% for GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs running Far Cry in SLI mode, and up to 15% for GeForce 7800 GTX GPUs running Half Life 2
• Mixing of add-in card partner boards based on like GPUs for NVIDIA SLI™ technology - offers customers upgrading to a multi-GPU configuration a wider variety of board choices
• Support for NVIDIA mobile GPUs - provides instant upgrades for selected notebook computers featuring NVIDIA GPUs
• PureVideo quality enhancements-support for high definition, MPEG-2 de-interlacing on GeForce 6600 and higher GPUs
• Broader SLI optimisations and quality-assurance validation for the latest games-including specific SLI profiles for more than 150 of the most popular titles

The NVIDIA Release 80 graphics driver gives end users the ability to mix and match any SLI Ready graphics cards of like GPUs to use in an NVIDIA SLI configuration-using two PCI-Express graphics cards in tandem for unparalleled graphics performance. Previously, customers had to use two graphics card from the same vender in an SLI configuration.

A wide selection of notebook manufacturers will also be supported with the NVIDIA Release 80 graphics driver, the first time that NVIDIA mobile GPU users can take advantage of new features and performance with every NVIDIA graphics driver update.

For further information on NVIDIA SLI technology, please visit http://in.slizone.com. The ForceWare Release 81.84 graphics driver is available immediately at http://www.nzone.in

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors. The Company’s products enhance the end-user experience on consumer and professional computing devices. NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), media and communications processors (MCPs), and wireless media processors (WMPs) have broad market reach and are incorporated into a variety of platforms, including consumer and enterprise PCs, notebooks, workstations, PDAs, mobile phones, and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 2,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company’s Web site at www.nvidia.in.

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to our relationships with customers and partners in the film industry and the features, benefits, performance and capability of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in ramping new products into production, adoption of other technologies or products by those in the film industry, manufacturing defects, incompatibility of technologies, reliance on third-party manufacturers, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, n changes in the film industry standards, our dependence on third-party developers and other risks detailed from time to time in the NVIDIA reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 24, 2004. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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