GPU model | NV40 | G86 |
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Architecture | Curie | Tesla |
Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Manufacturing process | 130 nm | 80 nm |
Number of transistors | 222 million | 210 million |
Die size | 287 mm² | 127 mm² |
GPU variant | — | G86-300-A2 |
Release date | Apr 14th, 2004 | Apr 17th, 2007 |
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Generation | GeForce 6 AGP | GeForce 8 |
Production | End-of-life | End-of-life |
Interface | AGP 8x | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Reviews | 115 in our database | 33 in our database |
Predecessor | GeForce FX | GeForce 7 PCIe |
Successor | GeForce 7 AGP | GeForce 9 |
Launch price | — | 129 USD |
GPU clock | 325 MHz | 459 MHz |
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Memory clock | 350 MHz 700 Mbps effective | 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective |
Shader clock | — | 918 MHz |
Memory size | 128 MB | 256 MB |
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Memory type | DDR | GDDR3 |
Memory bus width | 256 bit | 128 bit |
Bandwidth | 22.40 GB/s | 12.80 GB/s |
Pixel shaders | 12 | — |
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Vertex shaders | 5 | — |
TMUs | 12 | 8 |
ROPs | 12 | 4 |
Shading units | — | 16 |
SM count | — | 2 |
Cache L2 | — | 32 KB |
Pixel rate | 3.900 GPixel/s | 1.836 GPixel/s |
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Vertex rate | 406.3 MVertices/s | — |
Texture rate | 3.900 GTexel/s | 3.672 GTexel/s |
FP32 (float) performance | — | 29.38 GFLOPS |
Slot width | Single-slot | Single-slot |
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TDP | unknown | 30 W |
Suggested PSU | 200 W | 200 W |
Outputs | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video | 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video |
Power connectors | 1x Molex | None |
Board number | P201, P212 | P403 |
Length | — | 229 mm 9 inches |
DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | 11.1 (10_0) |
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OpenGL | 2.1 | 3.3 |
OpenCL | — | 1.1 |
Vulkan | — | — |
Shader model | 3.0 | 4.0 |
CUDA | — | 1.1 |