List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures

This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the person, their portrait, their profession or areas of expertise, their birth year, their death year, their country of origin, the microarchitecture named after them, and the year of release of the GPU architecture.

Eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
EponymProfessionOriginArchitectureRelease
Year
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André-Marie Ampère
(1775-1836)
Physicist and mathematicianFrance FrenchAmpere2020[1]

David Blackwell
(1919-2010)
Mathematician and statisticianUnited States AmericanBlackwell2024[2]
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Anders Celsius
(1701-1744)
Physicist and astronomerSweden SwedishCelsius1999

Marie Curie
(1867-1934)
Physicist and chemistCurie2004[3]

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
(1686-1736)
PhysicistPolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish Netherlands Naturalized Dutch Fahrenheit1998

Enrico Fermi
(1901-1954)
PhysicistFermi2010[4]

Grace Hopper
(1906-1992)
Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiralUnited States AmericanHopper2022[5]

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
(1824-1907)
Mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineerUnited Kingdom BritishKelvin2001

Johannes Kepler
(1571-1630)
Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on musicHoly Roman Empire GermanKepler2012[6]

Ada Lovelace
(1815-1852)
Mathematician and writerEngland EnglishAda
Lovelace
2022[7]

James Clerk Maxwell
(1831-1879)
Mathematician and scientistScotland ScottishMaxwell2014[8]

Blaise Pascal
(1623-1662)
Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writerFrance FrenchPascal2016[9]

William Rankine
(1820-1872)
Mechanical engineerScotland ScottishRankine2003

Nikola Tesla
(1856-1943)
Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futuristUnited States Serbian-AmericanTesla2006[10]

Alan Turing
(1912-1954)
Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologistEngland EnglishTuring2018[11]

Alessandro Volta
(1745-1827)
Physicist, chemistKingdom of Italy ItalianVolta2017[12]

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