Rankine is the codename for a GPU

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developed by

Nvidia Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

, and released in 2003, as the successor to

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microarchitecture. It was named with reference to

Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson ( ...

and used with the

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Graphics features

* DirectX 9.0a *

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1.5 (2.1) * Shader Model 2.0a * Vertex Shader 2.0a * Max VRAM size bumped to 256MB Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (

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mini).

Chips

GeForce FX series The GeForce FX or "GeForce 5" series (codenamed NV30) is a line of graphics processing units from the manufacturer Nvidia. Overview Nvidia's GeForce FX series is the fifth generation of the GeForce line. With GeForce 3, the company introduced p ...
and GeForce FX (5xxx) series

* NV39, 82 million transistor * NV38, 135 million transistor * NV37, 45 million transistor * NV36, 82 million transistor * NV35 * NV34 * NV31 * NV30, 125 million transistor

GPU list

GeForce 5 (5xxx) series

References

External links

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