Kelvin (microarchitecture)

Nvidia Kelvin
Release date2001-2003 2001
ArchitectureKelvin
Fabrication process150 nm
API support
DirectX8.0
OpenGL1.2 (1.5)
History
PredecessorCelsius
SuccessorRankine
Support status
Unsupported
Photo of Baron Kelvin, eponym of architecture

Kelvin is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2001, as the successor to the Celsius[1] microarchitecture. It was named with reference to William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and used with the GeForce 3 and 4 series.

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