Rankine (microarchitecture)

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

Nvidia Rankine

Release date	2003-2005 2003
Architecture	Rankine
Fabrication process	150 nm, 140 nm, 130 nm
API support
DirectX	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)
History
Predecessor	Kelvin
Successor	Curie
Support status
Unsupported

Photo of William Rankine, eponym of architecture

Graphics features

• 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

GeForce FX series and GeForce FX (5xxx) series

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

GPU list

GeForce 5 (5xxx) series

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	6 March 2003			AGP 8×	325	325		1300	1300	1300	81.25		10.4		128
GeForce PCX 5300	17 March 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	6 March 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	17 March 2004			PCIe ×16								128
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra	23 October 2003			AGP 8×	475	450		1900	1900	1900	356.25	128 256	14.4	GDDR2
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GDDR3	15 March 2004					475							15.2	GDDR3
GeForce FX 5800	27 January 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	15 December 2003	NV35			325	350	4:3:8:4	1300	1300	2600	343.75		22.4	DDR	256
GeForce FX 5900 XT	15 December 2003				390			1600	1600	3200	300
GeForce FX 5900	May 2003				400	425							27.2
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra	12 May 2003				450			1800	1800	3600	337.5	128 256
GeForce PCX 5900	17 March 2004			PCIe ×16
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra	23 October 2003	NV38		AGP 8×	475	475		1900	1900	3800	356.25	256	30.4
GeForce PCX 5950	17 February 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

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