Rankine (microarchitecture)

Summary

Rankine is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2003, as the successor to Kelvin[1] microarchitecture. It was named with reference to Macquorn Rankine and used with the GeForce FX series.

Nvidia Rankine
Release date2003-2005 2003
ArchitectureRankine
Fabrication process150 nm, 140 nm, 130 nm
API support
DirectX9.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)
History
PredecessorKelvin
SuccessorCurie
Support status
Unsupported
Photo of William Rankine, eponym of architecture

Graphics features edit

  • DirectX 9.0a[2]
  • OpenGL 1.5 (2.1)[3][4]
  • Shader Model 2.0a
  • Vertex Shader 2.0a
  • Max VRAM size bumped to 256MB

Chips edit

GeForce FX series and GeForce FX (5xxx) series edit

  • NV39, 82 million transistor[5]
  • NV38, 135 million transistor[6]
  • NV37, 45 million transistor[7]
  • NV36, 82 million transistor[8]
  • NV35
  • NV34
  • NV31
  • NV30, 125 million transistor[9]

GPU list edit

GeForce 5 (5xxx) series edit

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 Fillrate Memory
MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit)
GeForce FX 5100 March 2003 NV34 TSMC 150 nm AGP 8× 200 166 4:2:4:4 800 800 800 50 64

128

2.7 DDR 64
GeForce FX 5200 LE 250 1000 1000 1000 62.5 64

128 256

2.7

5.3

64

128

GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8×

PCI

200 3.2

6.4

64

128

GeForce FX 5200 Ultra March 6, 2003 AGP 8× 325 325 1300 1300 1300 81.25 10.4 128
GeForce PCX 5300 March 17, 2004 PCIe ×16 250 166 1000 1000 1000 62.5 128

256

2.7 64
GeForce FX 5500 March 2004 NV34B TSMC 140 nm AGP 8×

AGP 4× PCI

270 200 1080 1080 1080 67.5 64

128 256

3.2

6.4

64

128

GeForce FX 5600 XT October 2003 NV31 TSMC 130 nm AGP 8× 235 940 940 940 58.75 64

128

3.2

6.4

64

128

GeForce FX 5600 March 2003 AGP 8×

PCI

325 275 1300 1300 1300 81.25 64

128 256

8.8 128
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra March 6, 2003 AGP 8× 350 350 1400 1400 1400 87.5 64

128

11.2
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra Rev.2 400 400 1600 1600 1600 100 12.8
GeForce FX 5700 VE September 2004 NV36 IBM 130 nm 235 200 4:3:4:4 940 940 940 106.5 128

256

3.2

6.4

64

128

GeForce FX 5700 LE March 2004 AGP 8×

PCI

250 1000 1000 1000 187.5
GeForce FX 5700 2003 AGP 8× 425 250 1700 1700 1700 318.75 8 128
GeForce PCX 5750 March 17, 2004 PCIe ×16 128
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra October 23, 2003 AGP 8× 475 450 1900 1900 1900 356.25 128

256

14.4 GDDR2
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR3 March 15, 2004 475 15.2 GDDR3
GeForce FX 5800 January 27, 2003 NV30 TSMC 130 nm 400 400 4:2:8:4 1600 1600 3200 200 128 12.8 GDDR2
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra 500 500 2000 2000 4000 16
GeForce FX 5900 ZT December 15, 2003 NV35 325 350 4:3:8:4 1300 1300 2600 343.75 22.4 DDR 256
GeForce FX 5900 XT December 15, 2003 390 1600 1600 3200 300
GeForce FX 5900 May 2003 400 425 27.2
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra May 12, 2003 450 1800 1800 3600 337.5 128

256

GeForce PCX 5900 March 17, 2004 PCIe ×16
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra October 23, 2003 NV38 AGP 8× 475 475 1900 1900 3800 356.25 256 30.4
GeForce PCX 5950 February 17, 2004 PCIe ×16 GDDR3
Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 Fillrate Memory
MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "CodeNames". nouveau.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ "NVIDIA C61 GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  3. ^ "GPU chips — envytools git documentation". envytools.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  4. ^ "NVIDIA C51 GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  5. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5750 Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  6. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  7. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  8. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 EP Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  9. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

External links edit