NVIDIA Architecture Generations
Marketing names like "Ampere" or "Hopper" map to a compute capability number, and that number — not the marketing name — is what actually gates whether a piece of code compiles or runs. This page walks the generations that matter for code written today, listing only what each one added that changes what you can write or how you must write it, and closes with the canonical table this section's other pages point back at whenever they gate a feature behind a specific compute capability.