Rankine (microarchitecture)

Rankine is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2003, as the successor to 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

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