GPU and CPU Microarchitectures
42 entries in the GPU and CPU Microarchitectures compendium.
Fermi (microarchitecture)Nvidia's Fermi GPU microarchitecture succeeded Tesla and preceded Kepler.Kepler (microarchitecture)Nvidia's first GPU architecture focused on energy efficiency.Graphics Core NextAMD's RISC GPU microarchitecture succeeding TeraScale.RDNA (microarchitecture)AMD's GPU microarchitecture succeeding GCN, powering Radeon RX 5000 series onward.RDNA 3AMD's first chiplet-based consumer GPU microarchitecture.TeraScale (microarchitecture)AMD's unified shader microarchitecture replacing fixed-pipeline GPUs.Zen (first generation)AMD's first Zen microarchitecture, a clean-sheet design for Ryzen CPUs.Bonnell (microarchitecture)Low-power x86 microarchitecture reviving earlier design principles.Intel XeIntel's GPU architecture family spanning integrated to high-performance computing.Cyrix 6x86A Pentium competitor with strong integer but weak floating-point performance.ATI RageATI's early 3D accelerator series spanning 2D, video, and 3D.ImageonATI/AMD mobile graphics and multimedia chipsets for handheld devices.Radeon 8000 seriesATI's second-generation Radeon with programmable shaders and HyperZ II.Radeon 9000 seriesFirst fully Direct3D 9-capable consumer graphics chip.Radeon R100 seriesFirst Radeon generation with hardware T&L and HyperZ.Radeon R200 seriesATI's second-generation GPU with programmable shaders and HyperZ II.Radeon R300 seriesFirst fully Direct3D 9-capable consumer graphics chip.Radeon X1000 seriesATI's first major GPU overhaul since the R300.Pascal (microarchitecture)Nvidia's GPU microarchitecture succeeding Maxwell, introduced in 2016.CDNA (microarchitecture)AMD's compute-focused GPU microarchitecture for datacenter accelerators.Maxwell (microarchitecture)Nvidia's GPU microarchitecture succeeding Kepler, focused on power efficiency.Blackwell (microarchitecture)Nvidia's GPU architecture for the generative AI era.Transmeta CrusoeVLIW x86-compatible processor using software translation via Code Morphing Software.Xenos (graphics chip)Custom ATI GPU for Xbox 360 with unified shader architecture.Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)Nvidia GPU microarchitecture succeeding Ampere, announced September 2022.Lion CoveIntel P-core with wider front end and expanded cache hierarchy.Zen (microarchitecture)AMD's Zen microarchitecture family powers Ryzen, Threadripper, and Epyc processors.ATI WonderATI Wonder cards integrated multiple graphics standards into one card.Golden CoveIntel's largest microarchitectural upgrade to the Core family in a decade.Tesla (microarchitecture)Nvidia's first unified shader microarchitecture, succeeding Curie.Turing (microarchitecture)Nvidia's GPU microarchitecture that introduced real-time ray tracing to consumers.RDNA 2AMD's second-generation RDNA GPU architecture with ray tracing and Infinity Cache.Cyrix 5x86A fast Socket 3 CPU bridging 486 and Pentium performance.Ampere (microarchitecture)Nvidia GPU microarchitecture succeeding Volta and Turing.Sunny Cove (microarchitecture)Intel's 10 nm core focusing on single-thread performance and scalability.Cyrix Cx486SLCA 386SX with 486 instructions and 1 KB cache.ATI MachATI's early 2D accelerator line evolving from Mach8 to Mach64.All-in-WonderGraphics card with integrated TV tuner from ATI Technologies.Westmere (microarchitecture)A scaled-down Nehalem derivative with integrated graphics and AES-NI.Willow CoveIntel CPU microarchitecture for 11th-gen Core mobile processors.Radeon X800 seriesATI's mid-2004 graphics series competing with NVIDIA's GeForce 6800.Kelvin (microarchitecture)Nvidia GPU microarchitecture for GeForce 3 and 4 series.
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