Rankine (microarchitecture)

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

• DirectX 9.0a
• OpenGL 1.5 (2.1)
• Shader Model 2.0a
• Vertex Shader 2.0a
• Max VRAM size bumped to 256MB

• NV39, 82 million transistor
• NV38, 135 million transistor
• NV37, 45 million transistor
• NV36, 82 million transistor
• NV35
• NV34
• NV31
• NV30, 125 million transistor

• List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
• List of Nvidia graphics processing units
• Nvidia PureVideo
• Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
• Qualcomm Adreno