Curie (microarchitecture)

Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2004, as the successor to the Rankine microarchitecture. It was named with reference to the Polish physicist Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie and used with the GeForce 6 and 7 series. Curie was followed by Tesla.

Graphics features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL 2.1

Shader Model 3.0

Nvidia PureVideo (first generation)

Reintroduced support for Z compression

Hardware support for MSAA anti-aliasing algorithm (up to 4x)

The lack of unified shaders makes DirectX 9.0c the last supported version of DirectX for GPUs based on this microarchitecture.

GPU list

GeForce 6 (6xxx) series

Features

GeForce 7 (7xxx) series

Features

See also

List of Nvidia graphics processing units

Nvidia PureVideo

Scalable Link Interface (SLI)

Qualcomm Adreno

References

Source

• Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_(microarchitecture)
• Wikipedia API endpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php