NVIDIA GK106

GK106

GK106-240-A1

GK106-400-A1

N14E-GE-B-A1

N14E-GS-A1

Die Shot

Block Diagram

SMX Diagram

NVIDIA's GK106 GPU uses the Kepler architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 221 mm² and a transistor count of 2,540 million it is a medium-sized chip. GK106 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 3.0 and CUDA 3.0 can be used. It features 960 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 24 ROPs.

Graphics Processor

Released: Sep 6th, 2012

GPU Name: GK106

Codename: NVE6

Architecture: Kepler

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 28 nm

Transistors: 2,540 million

Density: 11.5M / mm²

Die Size: 221 mm²

Package: BGA-1425

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 3.0

Vulkan: 1.2.175

CUDA: 3.0

Shader Model: 6.5 (5.1)

WDDM: 3.0

NVENC: 1st Gen

NVDEC: 1st Gen

PureVideo HD: VP5

VDPAU: Feature Set D

Render Config

Shading Units: 960

TMUs: 80

ROPs: 24

SMX Count: 5

SFUs: 128

GPCs: 3

Tex L1 Cache: 48 KB per SMX

L1 Cache: 16 KB per SMX

L2 Cache: 512 KB

Max. TDP: 150 W

All Kepler GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2024 Blackwell
2023 Hopper
2022-2024 Ada Lovelace
2020-2024 Ampere
2018-2022 Turing
2017-2020 Volta
2016-2021 Pascal
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2006-2010 Tesla
2003-2013 Curie
2003-2005 Rankine
2001-2003 Kelvin
1999-2005 Celsius
1998-2000 Fahrenheit

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GK106 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	Base Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	GK106-400-A1	2 GB	960	80	24	980 MHz	1032 MHz	1502 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro K4000	GK106-875-A1	3 GB	768	64	24	810 MHz		1404 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost	GK106-240-A1	2 GB	768	64	24	980 MHz	1032 MHz	1502 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M	N14E-GS-A1	3 GB	960	80	24	706 MHz	797 MHz	1002 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM		2 GB	768	64	16	928 MHz		1350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M	N14E-GE-B-A1	2 GB	768	64	16	797 MHz	863 MHz	1002 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650		1024 MB	384	32	16	1058 MHz		1250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti OEM		2 GB	960	80	24	1033 MHz	1098 MHz	1502 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A	N14E-GL-A1	1024 MB	768	64	16	628 MHz	719 MHz	1002 MHz