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 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 Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Inventor,electrical engineer,mechanical engineer, and futurist Serbian American Tesla 2006 Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) Physicist Fermi 2010 Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) Astronomer,mathematician,astrologer,natural philosopher and writer on music German Kepler 2012 James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Mathematician and scientist Scottish Maxwell 2014 Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer French Pascal 2016 Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) Physicist, chemist Italian Volta 2017 Alan Turing (1912–1954) Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist English Turing 2018 André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) Physicist and mathematician French Ampere 2020 Grace Hopper (1906–1992) Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral American Hopper 2022 Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) Mathematician and writer English Ada Lovelace 2022 David Blackwell (1919–2010) Mathematician and statistician American Blackwell 2024 Vera Rubin (1928–2016) Astronomer, Astrophysicist American Rubin 2026 Richard Feynman (1918–1988)Theoretical physicist American Feynman 2028
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