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They name their architectures after scientists (Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Volta, Ampere, Lovelace, Hopper). Thats what the GPU initial stands for. As for the nu
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
They name their architectures after scientists (Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Volta, Ampere, Lovelace, Hopper). Thats what the GPU initial stands for.
As for the number, the die name counts down to 100 (with GA107, for instance, being a small GPU die and GA100 being the big one), and the big datacenter GPU as a product inherits the 100.
- semi 3y agoit'd be nice if they picked them in alphabetical order
- CooCooCaCha 3y agoI'm surprised nobody at nvidia brought this up
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThe naming scheme goes back to at least 2004 (Curie), and Wikipedia has done the service of alphabetizing it for us: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_of_Nvidia_GPU_microarchitectures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_of_Nvidia_GP... Also, it occurred to me that Nvidia does sometimes increment the die to 200 (EG GM200, as the Maxwell 100 series was a single small oddball die). Its possible that they "refreshed" the GH100 die and are codenaming it GH200.
- formerly_proven 3y agoAt first they used "measures of hotness", but ran out a few generations in. Coincidentally, degrees of warmth are all named after scientists. So they continued with scientists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitectur... -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture) -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_(microarchitecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_(microarchitecture)
- cout 3y agoWhich scientist is letter B?