EXHIBIT 23.1
 
                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
   
The Board of Directors and Stockholders     
   
NVIDIA Corporation:     
          
  The audits referred to in our report dated November 16, 1998, included the
related financial statement schedule as of October 25, 1998, and for each of
the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1997, the one-month
period ended January 31, 1998, and the nine-month period ended October 25,
1998, included in the registration statement. This financial statement
schedule is the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility
is to express an opinion on this financial statement schedule based on our
audits. In our opinion, such financial statement schedule, when considered in
relation to the financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all
material respects the information set forth therein.     
   
  We consent to the use of our reports included herein and to the reference to
our firm under the heading "Selected Financial Data" and "Experts" in the
prospectus.     
 
                                          KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
   
Mountain View, California     
   
December 22, 1998