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Rankine is the codename for a GPU
Rankine 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 2003, as the successor to the Kelvin
The kelvin (symbol: K) is the base unit for temperature in the International System of Units (SI). The Kelvin scale is an absolute temperature scale that starts at the lowest possible temperature (absolute zero), taken to be 0 K. By de ...
microarchitecture. It was named with reference to Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the scien ...
and used with the GeForce FX series
The GeForce FX or "GeForce 5" series (codenamed NV30) is a line of graphics processing units from the manufacturer Nvidia.
Overview
Nvidia's GeForce FX series is the fifth generation of the GeForce line. With GeForce 3, the company introduced pr ...
.
Graphics features
* DirectX 9.0a *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 ...
1.5 (2.1)
* Shader Model 2.0a
* Vertex Shader 2.0a
* Max VRAM size bumped to 256MB
Chips
GeForce FX series
The GeForce FX or "GeForce 5" series (codenamed NV30) is a line of graphics processing units from the manufacturer Nvidia.
Overview
Nvidia's GeForce FX series is the fifth generation of the GeForce line. With GeForce 3, the company introduced pr ...
and GeForce FX (5xxx) series
* NV39, 82 million transistor
* NV38, 135 million transistor
* NV37, 45 million transistor
* NV36, 82 million transistor
* NV35
* NV34
* NV31
* NV30, 125 million transistor
GPU list
GeForce 5 (5xxx) series
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
External links
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