 Pascal was manufactured using TSMC's 16nm FinFET process, and later Samsung's 14nm FinFET process.The architecture is named after the 17th century French mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal.On March 18, 2019, Nvidia announced that in a driver due for April 2019, they would enable DirectX Raytracing on Pascal-based cards starting with the GTX 1060 6 GB, and in the 16 series cards, a feature reserved to the Turing-based RTX series up to that point.