Asus is celebrating its 30 years in the graphics card business with a creator retrospective video and by offering the community a chance to win “epic prizes.” While the creator and influencer video contribution is a little shallow for our taste, as you’ll see below, the chance for community members to win one of several Asus RTX 50 GPU bundles between now and October 7 is very welcome.
Beginning with the Asus 375 and S3 ViRGE/DX chipset
The first graphics card backed by the Asus name was the Asus 375 in 1996, targeting commercial users and employing an S3 ViRGE/DX chipset.
However, Asus only started to address “hardcore 3D gaming” from 1997, when it partnered with Nvidia to create and market the Asus AGP-V3000 (review link). This was based on the Nvidia Riva 128 chipset, with 4MB of SGRAM onboard, and was the first 2D/3D accelerator with full Microsoft Direct3D support. It was built to outmaneuver contemporary offerings from 3dfx, Matrox, and ATi.
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In 2006, Asus formed the Republic of Gamers (ROG) and forged ahead with its plans to lead PC graphics card innovations with products such as the Asus ROG Mars GTX 295, which you can read more about below, as well as the ROG Poseidon series with hybrid liquid/air cooling.