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 [GeForce GeForce 7 series|7 series|7] series. Curie was followed by Tesla.

Graphics features

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