Rankine (microarchitecture)

Nvidia Rankine
Release date2003-2005 2003
ArchitectureRankine
Fabrication process150 nm, 140 nm, 130 nm
API support
DirectX9.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)
History
PredecessorKelvin
SuccessorCurie
Support status
Unsupported
Photo of William Rankine, eponym of architecture

Rankine is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2003, as the successor to Kelvin[1] microarchitecture. It was named with reference to Macquorn Rankine and used with the GeForce FX series.

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