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How retro consoles handled graphics before modern GPUs
Original: How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs? Graphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arr
A new explainer looks at how retro console graphics chips worked in the era before modern GPUs. These early chips could draw images but could not compute anything themselves, with that limitation persisting until the original Xbox arrived in 2001 and brought a real programmable GPU to home consoles. The piece traces that technological shift and how it changed what developers could do with game graphics.
Why now: Readers of gaming and tech history content are interested in the technical evolution from fixed-function graphics chips to modern programmable GPUs.
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