List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
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.
| Eponym | Profession | Origin | Architecture | Release year |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) |
Physicist | 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 |
Curie | 2004 | [1] | |
| Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) |
Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist |
Serbian American | Tesla | 2006 | [2] |
| Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) |
Physicist | Fermi | 2010 | [3] | |
| Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) |
Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music |
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] |
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