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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.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
(1686–1736) 		Physicist
Fahrenheit 1998
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Anders Celsius
(1701–1744) 		Physicist and astronomer Sweden Swedish Celsius 1999

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

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

Marie Curie
(1867–1934) 		Physicist and chemist
  • Poland Polish
  • France Naturalized French
 Curie 2004 [1]

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

Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954) 		Physicist
  • Kingdom of Italy Italian
  • United States 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 Scotland Scottish Maxwell 2014 [5]

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

Alessandro Volta
(1745–1827) 		Physicist, chemist Kingdom of Italy Italian Volta 2017 [7]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Feynman
(1918–1988) 		Theoretical physicist United States 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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