True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

Actually, they didn’t.

This was their first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

Complete failure, overpriced, undercapable, was one of the worst cards on the market at the time, and used quadratics instead of triangles.

NV2 was supposed to power the dreamcast, and kept the quads, but was cancelled.

But the third one stayed up! https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA?t=23