No, the NV03 is the RIVA128 chipset. The NV04 is the chipset for the
TNT, the TNT2 (a sped-up version of the TNT w/ support for more RAM),
and the Vanta (cheap-ass version of TNT). NVidia started marketing the
TNT as the RIVA TNT 128 b/c it was originally touted as a "TNT-enhanced
RIVA 128" chipset. The 128 was important b/c ATI, Imagine, and some of
the other big names at the time were making a big stink about having
128-bit graphics cards.

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 08:00, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:12:35 +0200 (CEST)
> "Guy.Bormann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Mmm, how do you explain the following lspci -v output then?
> > <See attachment>
> 
> Your attachment says "RIVA TNT 128" not RIVA128 or TNT128
> It is a NVIDIA chipset and uses the NVIDIA drivers.
> 
> At one time such were marketed as RIVA 128 but when Nvidia discontinued
> support for this chip as a separate entity and then began supporting
> with the NVIDIA drivers its designation was changed to RIVA TNT 128.
> 
> 
>     Charles
> 
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