GPU model | Caicos | NV40 |
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GPU variant | Caicos PRO | — |
Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Curie |
Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Manufacturing process | 40 nm | 130 nm |
Number of transistors | 370 million | 222 million |
Die size | 67 mm² | 287 mm² |
Release date | Apr 7th, 2011 | Dec 8th, 2005 |
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Generation | Northern Islands | GeForce 6 AGP |
Production | End-of-life | End-of-life |
Launch price | 55 USD | — |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | AGP 8x |
Reviews | 14 in our database | 115 in our database |
Predecessor | Evergreen | GeForce FX |
Successor | Southern Islands | GeForce 7 AGP |
GPU clock | 625 MHz | 350 MHz |
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Memory clock | 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective | 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective |
Memory size | 512 MB | 256 MB |
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Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Memory bus width | 64 bit | 256 bit |
Bandwidth | 25.60 GB/s | 32.00 GB/s |
Shading units | 160 | — |
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TMUs | 8 | 12 |
ROPs | 4 | 12 |
Compute units | 2 | — |
Cache L1 | 8 KB (per CU) | — |
Cache L2 | 128 KB | — |
Pixel shaders | — | 12 |
Vertex shaders | — | 5 |
Pixel rate | 2.500 GPixel/s | 4.200 GPixel/s |
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Texture rate | 5.000 GTexel/s | 4.200 GTexel/s |
FP32 (float) performance | 200.0 GFLOPS | — |
Vertex rate | — | 437.5 MVertices/s |
Slot width | Single-slot | Single-slot |
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Length | 168 mm 6.6 inches | — |
TDP | 18 W | unknown |
Suggested PSU | 200 W | 200 W |
Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video |
Power connectors | None | 1x Molex |
Board number | C264 | P201 |
DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 9.0c (9_3) |
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OpenGL | 4.4 | 2.1 |
OpenCL | 1.2 | — |
Vulkan | — | — |
Shader model | 5.0 | 3.0 |