Celsius (microarchitecture)

Celsius is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 1999, as the successor to Fahrenheit (NV4, NV3...) microarchitecture. It was named with reference to Celsius and used with the GeForce 256 and GeForce 2 series.

Graphics features

 * DirectX 7.0
 * OpenGL 1.2 (1.5)
 * Max VRAM size bumped to 128MB

GeForce 256

 * NV10, 17 million transistor

GeForce 2 series

 * NV11, 20 million transistor
 * NV15, 25 million transistor
 * NV17, 29 million transistor
 * NV18, 29 million transistor
 * Crush11, 20 million transistor
 * Crush17, 29 million transistor