Celsius^[1] is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 1999 microarchitecture. It was named with reference to Anders Celsius and used with the GeForce 256 and GeForce 2 series.

Naming convention

While Celsius was not used as a marketing name at the time of the GeForce 256's launch in 1999, the public name was first used by the nouveau Linux driver, and much later on the Nvidia website.^[2][3][4]

The company's naming convention using famous scientists for its microarchitectures only became standard practice starting with the Tesla/Fermi generations.^[5]

Graphics features

Feature

• The transform and lighting hardware

API

• DirectX 7.0
• OpenGL 1.2 (1.5)^[6][7]

Memory

• Max VRAM size bumped to 128MB

Chips

GPU list

See also

• List of Nvidia graphics processing units
• Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
• Qualcomm Adreno

References

External links