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Curie is the codename for a GPU
Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture
In electronics, computer science and computer engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer organization and sometimes abbreviated as μarch or uarch, is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented in a particular ...
developed by Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (president and CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curti ...
, and released in 2004, as the successor to the Rankine Rankine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* William Rankine (1820–1872), Scottish engineer and physicist
** Rankine body an elliptical shape of significance in fluid dynamics, named for Rankine
** Rankine scale, an absolut ...
microarchitecture. It was named with reference to the Polish physicist Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie and used with the GeForce 6 and 7 series. Curie was followed by Tesla
Tesla most commonly refers to:
* Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
* Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
* Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-d ...
.
Graphics features
* DirectX 9.0c (9_3) *OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a Language-independent specification, cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D computer graphics, 2D and 3D computer graphics, 3D vector graphics. The API is typic ...
2.1
* Shader Model 3.0
* Nvidia PureVideo
PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occu ...
(first generation)
* Reintroduced support for Z compression
* Hardware support for MSAA anti-aliasing Anti-aliasing may refer to any of a number of techniques to combat the problems of aliasing in a sampled signal such as a digital image or digital audio recording.
Specific topics in anti-aliasing include:
* Anti-aliasing filter, a filter used b ...
algorithm (up to 4x)
The lack of unified shaders makes DirectX 9.0c the last supported version of DirectX for GPUs based on this microarchitecture.NVIDIA introduced unified shader model in Tesla
Tesla most commonly refers to:
* Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
* Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
* Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-d ...
GPU microarchitecture.
GPU list
GeForce 6 (6xxx) series
Features
GeForce 7 (7xxx) series
Features
See also
*List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym
An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word ''eponym'' include ''eponymous'' and '' ...
* List of Nvidia graphics processing units
This list contains general information about graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Comparison of Nvidia nForce chipsets, Nvidia motherboards come with integrated onboard GP ...
* Nvidia PureVideo
PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occu ...
* Scalable Link Interface
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is the brand name for a now discontinued multi- GPU technology developed by Nvidia (The technology was invented and developed by 3dfx and later purchased by Nvidia during the acquisition of 3dfx) for linking two or m ...
(SLI)
* Qualcomm Adreno
Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in many of their SoCs.
History
Adreno is an integrated graphics processing unit (GPU) within Qualcomm's Snapdragon ...
References
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