Rankine (microarchitecture) explained

Nvidia Rankine
Created:	2003
D3dversion:	9.0
Predecessor:	Kelvin
Successor:	Curie
Process:	150 nm, 140 nm, 130 nm
Openglversion:	1.5 (2.1)
Architecture:	Rankine
Date:	2003-2005
Support Status:	Unsupported

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.

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
• NV34
• NV31
• 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 config^1	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	64128	2.7	DDR	64
GeForce FX 5200 LE					250			1000	1000	1000	62.5	64128256	2.75.3		64128
GeForce FX 5200				AGP 8×PCI		200							3.26.4		64128
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	128256	2.7		64
GeForce FX 5500	March 2004	NV34B	TSMC 140 nm	AGP 8×AGP 4×PCI	270	200		1080	1080	1080	67.5	64128256	3.26.4		64128
GeForce FX 5600 XT	October 2003	NV31	TSMC 130 nm	AGP 8×	235			940	940	940	58.75	64128	3.26.4		64128
GeForce FX 5600	March 2003			AGP 8×PCI	325	275		1300	1300	1300	81.25	64128256	8.8		128
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra	March 6, 2003			AGP 8×	350	350		1400	1400	1400	87.5	64128	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	128256	3.26.4		64128
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	128256	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	128256
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 config^1	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

Notes and References

1. Web site: CodeNames. 2021-02-15. nouveau.freedesktop.org.
2. Web site: NVIDIA C61 GPU Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
3. Web site: GPU chips — envytools git documentation. 2021-02-15. envytools.readthedocs.io.
4. Web site: NVIDIA C51 GPU Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
5. Web site: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5750 Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
6. Web site: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
7. Web site: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
8. Web site: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 EP Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.
9. Web site: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Specs. 2021-02-15. TechPowerUp. en.