S
ince 1998, Nvidia has taken a
steady march through the
pantheon of science when
naming the architecture behind
each of its GPUs. Those of the company’s first
(NV1 in 1995 ) and second (NV3 in 1997)
publicly released GPUs didn’t get that
treatment, but each one since has carried the
name of someone who legitimately changed
the world with their scientific contribution.
Alan Turing, the British mathematician,
logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist
lends his name to the architecture that
underpins the company’s current chip line-
up, and his achievements in science and
their impact on our world today undoubtedly
put some extra pressure on them to deliver
something great with it.
Indeed, the initial Turing-based GPUs were
the first in over a decade to use something
other than the famous GTX branding
that Nvidia used for its flagship GeForce
consumer products. In the world of consumer
graphics products, that kind of move signals
supreme intent and a real advance in the
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