List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures

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This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the person, their portrait, their profession or areas of expertise, their birth year, their death year, their country of origin, the microarchitecture named after them, and the year of release of the GPU architecture.

Eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures  Eponym  | Profession  | Origin  | Architecture  | Release
year  | Ref.

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
(1686–1736)  | Physicist  |

* Template:Country data Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish
* Naturalized Dutch

| Fahrenheit  | 1998  |

Anders Celsius
(1701–1744)  | Physicist and
astronomer  |  Swedish  | Celsius | 1999  |

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
(1824–1907)  | Mathematician,
mathematical physicist and
engineer  |  British  | Kelvin | 2001  |

William Rankine
(1820–1872)  | Mechanical engineer  |  Scottish  | Rankine | 2003  |

Marie Curie
(1867–1934)  | Physicist and
chemist  |

* Polish
* Naturalized French

| Curie | 2004  | [1]

Nikola Tesla
(1856–1943)  | Inventor,
electrical engineer,
mechanical engineer, and
futurist  |  Serbian American  | Tesla | 2006  | [2]

Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954)  | Physicist  |

* Italian
* Naturalized American

| Fermi | 2010  | [3]

Johannes Kepler
(1571–1630)  | Astronomer,
mathematician,
astrologer,
natural philosopher and
writer on music  | Holy Roman Empire German  | Kepler | 2012  | [4]

James Clerk Maxwell
(1831–1879)  | Mathematician and
scientist  |  Scottish  | Maxwell | 2014  | [5]

Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662)  | Mathematician,
physicist,
inventor,
philosopher, and
Catholic writer  |  French  | Pascal | 2016  | [6]

Alessandro Volta
(1745–1827)  | Physicist,
chemist  |  Italian  | Volta | 2017  | [7]

Alan Turing
(1912–1954)  | Mathematician,
computer scientist,
logician,
cryptanalyst,
philosopher, and
theoretical biologist  |  English  | Turing | 2018  | [8]

André-Marie Ampère
(1775–1836)  | Physicist and
mathematician  |  French  | Ampere | 2020  | [9]

Grace Hopper
(1906–1992)  | Computer scientist,
mathematician, and
United States Navy
rear admiral  |  American  | Hopper | 2022  | [10]

Ada Lovelace
(1815–1852)  | Mathematician and
writer  |  English  | Ada
Lovelace  | 2022  | [11]

David Blackwell
(1919–2010)  | Mathematician and
statistician  |  American  | Blackwell  | 2024  | [12]

Vera Rubin
(1928–2016)  | Astronomer,
Astrophysicist  |  American  | Rubin  | 2026  | [13]

Richard Feynman
(1918–1988)  | Theoretical physicist  |  American  | Feynman  | 2028  | [14]

## References

1. ↑ Tyson, Mark (November 8, 2021). "The Roundup: Marie Curie's birthday tech news topup" (in en-GB). https://www.club386.com/the-roundup-marie-curies-birthday-tech-news-topup/.
2. ↑ NVIDIA [@nvidia] (July 10, 2017). "Happy Birthday to Nikola Tesla, an inspiring inventor and the namesake of our data center GPUs. He was born in 1856 #OnThisDay." (in en-US). https://twitter.com/nvidia/status/884537812866834433.
3. ↑ "NVIDIA GT300 "Fermi" Detailed" (in en-US). September 30, 2009. https://www.techpowerup.com/104942/nvidia-gt300-fermi-detailed.
4. ↑ Wilson, Jason R. (October 12, 2021). "NVIDIA Ends Game Ready Driver Support for Kepler GeForce 600 & 700 Series GPU Family" (in en-US). https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ends-game-ready-driver-support-for-kepler-geforce-600-700-series-gpu-family/.
5. ↑ Nguyen, Hubert (February 18, 2014). "NVIDIA Maxwell GPU For GeForce Cards" (in en-US). https://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/02/nvidia-maxwell-gpu-for-geforce-cards/.
6. ↑ Poeter, Damon (March 25, 2014). "Nvidia Reveals Pascal, a Future GPU Architecture" (in en-US). https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-reveals-pascal-a-future-gpu-architecture.
7. ↑ Prickett Morgan, Timothy (March 19, 2013). "Nvidia to stack up DRAM on future 'Volta' GPUs" (in en-US). https://www.theregister.com/2013/03/19/nvidia_gpu_roadmap_computing_update/.
8. ↑ Hagedoorn, Hilbert. "New NVIDIA GPU is named at Reuters, called Turing". https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/new-nvidia-gpu-is-named-at-reuterscalled-turing.html.
9. ↑ Liu, Zhiye (December 9, 2019). "Hopper Might Be the Codename For Nvidia GPUs Succeeding Ampere" (in en-US). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-hopper-gpu-graphics-card-architecture.
10. ↑ Ridley, Jacob (January 31, 2022). "Nvidia is in a trademark clash for its next-gen GPU name, Hopper" (in en-US). https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-is-in-a-trademark-clash-for-its-next-gen-gpu-name-hopper/.
11. ↑ Mujtaba, Hassan (September 15, 2022). "NVIDIA's Next-Gen Ada Lovelace Gaming GPU Architecture For GeForce RTX 40 Series Confirmed" (in en-US). https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ada-lovelace-gpu-architecture-for-next-gen-geforce-rtx-40-gaming-gpus-confirmed/.
12. ↑ Uchiyama, Kristin (March 18, 2024). "NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing" (in en-US). https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing.
13. ↑ Edwards, Benj (June 3, 2024). "Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen "Rubin" AI chips in keynote tease" (in en-US). https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/nvidia-jumps-ahead-of-itself-and-reveals-next-gen-rubin-ai-chips-in-keynote-tease/.
14. ↑ Mujtaba, Hassan (March 18, 2025). "NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen Feynman GPU In Updated Roadmap, Arriving in 2028 With Next-Gen HBM Memory". https://wccftech.com/nvidia-next-gen-feynman-gpu-updated-roadmap-arriving-2028-next-gen-hbm-memory/.

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