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.
Eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
Eponym
Profession
Origin
Architecture
Release year
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)
Physicist and mathematician
French
Ampere
2020
[ 1]
David Blackwell (1919–2010)
Mathematician and statistician
American
Blackwell
2024
[ 2]
Anders Celsius (1701–1744)
Physicist and astronomer
Swedish
Celsius
1999
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Physicist and chemist
Curie
2004
[ 3]
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736)
Physicist
Polish 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
American
Hopper
2022
[ 5]
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907)
Mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer
British
Kelvin
2001
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music
German
Kepler
2012
[ 6]
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
Mathematician and writer
English
Ada Lovelace
2022
[ 7]
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
Mathematician and scientist
Scottish
Maxwell
2014
[ 8]
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer
French
Pascal
2016
[ 9]
William Rankine (1820–1872)
Mechanical engineer
Scottish
Rankine
2003
Vera Rubin (1928–2016)
Astronomer
American
Rubin
2026
[ 10]
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
Serbian American
Tesla
2006
[ 11]
Alan Turing (1912–1954)
Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist
English
Turing
2018
[ 12]
Alessandro Volta (1745–1827)
Physicist, chemist
Italian
Volta
2017
[ 13]
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