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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.

André-Marie Ampère
(1775–1836)
Physicist and mathematician France French Ampere 2020 [1]

David Blackwell
(1919–2010)
Mathematician and statistician United States American Blackwell 2024 [2]
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Anders Celsius
(1701–1744)
Physicist and astronomer Sweden Swedish Celsius 1999

Marie Curie
(1867–1934)
Physicist and chemist Curie 2004 [3]

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
(1686–1736)
Physicist Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish Netherlands Naturalized Dutch Fahrenheit 1998

Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954)
Physicist Fermi 2010 [4]

Grace Hopper
(1906–1992)
Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral United States American Hopper 2022 [5]

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

Johannes Kepler
(1571–1630)
Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music Holy Roman Empire German Kepler 2012 [6]

Ada Lovelace
(1815–1852)
Mathematician and writer England English Ada
Lovelace
2022 [7]

James Clerk Maxwell
(1831–1879)
Mathematician and scientist Scotland Scottish Maxwell 2014 [8]

Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662)
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer France French Pascal 2016 [9]

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

Vera Rubin
(1928–2016)
Astronomer United States American Rubin 2026 [10]

Nikola Tesla
(1856–1943)
Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist United States Serbian-American Tesla 2006 [11]

Alan Turing
(1912–1954)
Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist England English Turing 2018 [12]

Alessandro Volta
(1745–1827)
Physicist, chemist Kingdom of Italy Italian Volta 2017 [13]

References

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  6. ^ Wilson, Jason R. (October 12, 2021). "NVIDIA Ends Game Ready Driver Support for Kepler GeForce 600 & 700 Series GPU Family". Wccftech. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  7. ^ Mujtaba, Hassan (September 15, 2022). "NVIDIA's Next-Gen Ada Lovelace Gaming GPU Architecture For GeForce RTX 40 Series Confirmed". Wccftech. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  8. ^ Nguyen, Hubert (February 18, 2014). "NVIDIA Maxwell GPU For GeForce Cards". Ubergizmo. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  9. ^ Poeter, Damon (March 25, 2014). "Nvidia Reveals Pascal, a Future GPU Architecture". PCMag. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  10. ^ Edwards, Benj (June 3, 2024). "Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen "Rubin" AI chips in keynote tease". Ars Technica. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
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  12. ^ Hagedoorn, Hilbert. "New NVIDIA GPU is named at Reuters, called Turing". Guru3D. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
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