[Dave Baumann]

NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Win Prestigious Image Quality Awards
Foremost Independent Testing Firm Rates NVIDIA Quadro NVS Professional Graphics Best Three Years In A Row

LONDON - FEBRUARY 18th, 2004 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that NVIDIA Quadro® NVS professional 2D graphics solutions have won prestigious Five Star Awards from industry-standard DisplayMate Technologies, the foremost independent source for image quality testing. As 2004 Five Star Award winners, the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 are recommended in DisplayMate's 2004 Best Video Hardware Guide as "standards of excellence" by which consumers, corporate buyers, reviewers, test labs and manufacturers judge graphics board image quality. View the latest Best Video Hardware Guide at http://www.displaymate.com/best.html.

"For the third straight year, NVIDIA Quadro NVS professional 2D graphics solutions produced the best image quality in CRTs, as well as analogue and digital flat panel monitors and projectors," said Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies. "The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 delivered the best signal quality of any graphics card, producing the best pixel tracking, image stability and picture quality that we've seen. After extensive testing, we recommend the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 as standards of excellence for single or multi-monitor displays."

NVIDIA solutions are distinguished in four of the five graphics card categories in DisplayMate's 2004 Best Video Hardware Guide, more than twice that of competing products, for:

• Unmatched Flat Panel Performance: DisplayMate only recommends NVIDIA
  graphics boards for use with flat panel analogue displays because they have the best image quality, sharpness, and pixel tracking for analogue LCDs, DLPs, and plasma displays with resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 at 75Hz with 24/32-bit colour.
• Outstanding Multi-monitor Displays: The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280, which can power two displays, and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400, which can power four displays, drive resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 at 75Hz with 24/32-bit colour.
• Outstanding CRT Performance: The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 drives display resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 at 75Hz with 24/32-bit colour.
• "Perfect" Compatibility: The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 demonstrates "perfect" DOS and VESA video compatibility and timing for all modes within the Windows operating system.

DisplayMate bestows Five Star Awards on products that most accurately reproduce its extensive set of proprietary test patterns for calibrating, evaluating, and testing CRTs, analogue and digital LCDs, projectors, plasma displays, video boards and more. DisplayMate is an industry standard within the computer and display industries: Over 200 publications in 50 countries use DisplayMate for their editorial testing and lab reviews of video hardware. DisplayMate's Best Video Hardware Guide is a free and objective service of DisplayMate Technologies. Manufacturers do not pay to be listed in it.

NVIDIA tests NVS solutions with all major financial and corporate applications, commonly used analogue and digital displays and peripherals with the goal of zero down-time to professionals. NVIDIA® UDA, the single unified driver for all NVIDIA graphics products, ensures high performance and image quality with a set of backward-and-forward, top-to-bottom-compatible graphics drivers that simplifies large-scale system deployment and unattended installations.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,800 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.nvidia.co.uk.