Celsius (microarchitecture)

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Short description: GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Nvidia Celsius
Release date1999-2005 1999
ArchitectureCelsius
Fabrication process220 nm, 180nm, 150 nm
API support
Direct3D7.0
OpenGL1.2 (1.5)
History
PredecessorFahrenheit
SuccessorKelvin

Celsius is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 1999, as the successor to Fahrenheit (NV4, NV3...)[1] 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)[2][3]
  • Max VRAM size bumped to 128MB

Chips

GeForce 256

  • NV10, 17 million transistor[4]

GeForce 2 series

  • NV11, 20 million transistor[5]
  • NV15, 25 million transistor[6]
  • NV17, 29 million transistor[7]
  • NV18, 29 million transistor
  • Crush11, 20 million transistor[8]
  • Crush17, 29 million transistor[9]

GPU list

GeForce 256

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 Fillrate Memory Processing power (GFLOPS)
MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Single precision
GeForce 256 SDR 11 October 1999 NV10 TSMC 220 nm AGP 4×

PCI

120 166 4:4:4 480 480 480 0 32

64

2.656 SDR 128 50
GeForce 256 DDR 13 December 1999 150 4.8 DDR

GeForce 2 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)
GeForce2 MX IGP + nForce 220/420 4 June 2001 NV1A (IGP) / NV11 (MX) TSMC 180 nm FSB 175 133 2:4:2 350 350 700 0 Up to 32 system RAM 2.128

4.256

DDR 64

128

GeForce2 MX200 3 March 2001 AGP 4×

PCI

166 32

64

1.328 SDR 64
GeForce2 MX 28 June 2000 2.656 128
GeForce2 MX400 3 March 2001 200 166,200 (SDR)

166 (DDR)

400 400 800 2.656, 3.200 SDR

DDR

128 (SDR)

64 (DDR)

GeForce2 GTS 26 April 2000 NV15 AGP 4× 166 4:8:4 800 800 1600 5.312 DDR 128
GeForce2 Pro 5 December 2000 200 6.4
GeForce2 Ti 1 October 2001 TSMC 150 nm 250 1000 1000 2000
GeForce2 Ultra 14 August 2000 NV16 TSMC 180 nm 230 64 7.36
Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core clock (MHz) Memory clock (MHz) Core config1 MOperations/s MPixels/s MTexels/s MVertices/s Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit)
Fillrate Memory

See also

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