The Detonator 3 driver, like all recent NVIDIA drivers, is unified and will work across the entire TNT2, GeForce and Quadro families of graphics cards. And the GeForce2 Ultra will function with any of the unified NVIDIA drivers that came before it.

This is important for corporate situations where drivers need to be validated across thousands of desktops. By having only one driver that needs to be validated for multiple video cards, NVIDIA's unified driver architecture saves both time and money. For the home user, the unified driver architecture just removes the trouble of finding drivers for your specific model.

But this is most important for NVIDIA's bottom line. By unifying their driver architecture, NVIDIA only has to update and maintain one driver instead of several drivers. Writing and maintaining drivers is an expensive task that can require a team of up to one hundred people for a single product. By maintaining a broad product line with a single unified driver, NVIDIA is able to keep up support through the years without crushing themselves under the weight of their own driver support.