Pascal (microarchitecture)

Pascal is the codename for a <a href="/facts/GPU/PTK1RQVp">GPU</a> <a href="/facts/Microarchitecture/NFRd4NUL">microarchitecture</a> developed by <a href="/facts/Nvidia/8QfCgqbu">Nvidia</a>, as the successor to the <a href="/facts/Maxwell_(microarchitecture)/wjnyCCAN">Maxwell</a> architecture. The architecture was first introduced in April 2016 with the release of the Tesla P100 (GP100) on April 5, 2016, and is primarily used in the <a href="/facts/GeForce_10_series/rEQwmDqC">GeForce 10 series</a>, starting with the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 (both using the GP104 GPU), which were released on May 27, 2016, and June 10, 2016, respectively. Pascal was manufactured using <a href="/facts/TSMC/B4BdojRk">TSMC</a>'s <a href="/facts/14_nm_process/lQYsD92n">16 nm</a> <a href="/facts/FinFET/xox63kP7">FinFET</a> process, and later <a href="/facts/Samsung/oNXUwDjn">Samsung</a>'s <a href="/facts/14_nanometer/lQYsD92n">14 nm</a> FinFET process.
The architecture is named after the 17th century French mathematician and physicist, <a href="/facts/Blaise_Pascal/Huy5LenL">Blaise Pascal</a>. 
In April 2019, Nvidia enabled a software implementation of <a href="/facts/DirectX_Raytracing/s7vskcXP">DirectX Raytracing</a> on Pascal-based cards starting with the GTX 1060 6 GB, and in the <a href="/facts/GeForce_16_series/vzs84EeY">16 series</a> cards, a feature reserved to the Turing-based RTX series up to that point.

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