Curie is the codename for a GPU

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developed by

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, and released in 2004, as the successor to

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microarchitecture. It was named with reference to the Polish physicist Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie and used with the

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and 7 series. Curie was followed by

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Graphics features

* DirectX 9.0c (9_3) *

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2.1 * Shader Model 3.0 *

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(first generation) * Reintroduced support for Z compression * Hardware support for MSAA

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algorithm (up to 4x) The lack of unified shaders makes

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the last supported version of DirectX for GPUs based on this microarchitecture.NVIDIA introduced unified shader model in

GPU microarchitecture.

GPU list

GeForce 6 (6xxx) series

GeForce 7 (7xxx) series

References

{{NVIDIA GPGPU Nvidia Curie Nvidia microarchitectures Parallel computing Graphics cards

Graphics features

GPU list

GeForce 6 (6xxx) series

GeForce 7 (7xxx) series

See also

References