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.

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

Chips GeForce FX series and GeForce FX (5xxx) series NV39, 82 million transistor NV38, 135 million transistor NV37, 45 million transistor NV36, 82 million transistor NV35 NV34 NV31 NV30, 125 million transistor

GPU list GeForce 5 (5xxx) series ModelLaunchCode nameFab (nm)Bus interfaceCore clock (MHz)Memory clock (MHz)Core config1FillrateMemoryMOperations/sMPixels/sMTexels/sMVertices/sSize (MB)Bandwidth (GB/s)Bus typeBus width (bit)GeForce FX 5100March 2003NV34TSMC 150 nmAGP 8×2001664:2:4:48008008005064 1282.7DDR64GeForce FX 5200 LE25010001000100062.564 128 2562.7 5.364 128GeForce FX 5200AGP 8× PCI2003.2 6.464 128GeForce FX 5200 Ultra6 March 2003AGP 8×32532513001300130081.2510.4128GeForce PCX 530017 March 2004PCIe ×1625016610001000100062.5128 2562.764GeForce FX 5500March 2004NV34BTSMC 140 nmAGP 8× AGP 4× PCI27020010801080108067.564 128 2563.2 6.464 128GeForce FX 5600 XTOctober 2003NV31TSMC 130 nmAGP 8×23594094094058.7564 1283.2 6.464 128GeForce FX 5600March 2003AGP 8× PCI32527513001300130081.2564 128 2568.8128GeForce FX 5600 Ultra6 March 2003AGP 8×35035014001400140087.564 12811.2GeForce FX 5600 Ultra Rev.240040016001600160010012.8GeForce FX 5700 VESeptember 2004NV36IBM 130 nm2352004:3:4:4940940940106.5128 2563.2 6.464 128GeForce FX 5700 LEMarch 2004AGP 8× PCI250100010001000187.5GeForce FX 57002003AGP 8×425250170017001700318.758128GeForce PCX 575017 March 2004PCIe ×16128GeForce FX 5700 Ultra23 October 2003AGP 8×475450190019001900356.25128 25614.4GDDR2GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR315 March 200447515.2GDDR3GeForce FX 580027 January 2003NV30TSMC 130 nm4004004:2:8:416001600320020012812.8GDDR2GeForce FX 5800 Ultra50050020002000400016GeForce FX 5900 ZT15 December 2003NV353253504:3:8:4130013002600343.7522.4DDR256GeForce FX 5900 XT15 December 2003390160016003200300GeForce FX 5900May 200340042527.2GeForce FX 5900 Ultra12 May 2003450180018003600337.5128 256GeForce PCX 590017 March 2004PCIe ×16GeForce FX 5950 Ultra23 October 2003NV38AGP 8×475475190019003800356.2525630.4GeForce PCX 595017 February 2004PCIe ×16GDDR3ModelLaunchCode nameFab (nm)Bus interfaceCore clock (MHz)Memory clock (MHz)Core config1FillrateMemoryMOperations/sMPixels/sMTexels/sMVertices/sSize (MB)Bandwidth (GB/s)Bus typeBus width (bit)

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

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