Curie (microarchitecture)

Nvidia Curie
Release date2004
Fabrication process130 nm, 110 nm, 90 nm, 80 nm
API support
DirectX9.0c
OpenGL2.1
History
PredecessorRankine
SuccessorTesla
Support status
Unsupported
Photo of Marie Curie, eponym of architecture

Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2004, as the successor to Rankine[1] 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.

  1. ^ "CodeNames". nouveau.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.