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NVIDIA NV30
NV30
NV30GL
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NVIDIA's NV30 GPU uses the Rankine architecture and is made using a 130 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 199 mm² and a transistor count of 125 million it is a small chip. NV30 supports DirectX 9.0a. Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 4 pixel shaders and 3 vertex shaders, 8 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support).
Graphics Processor
Released
Jan 21st, 2003
GPU Name
NV30
Architecture
Rankine
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
130 nm
Transistors
125 million
Density
628.1K / mm²
Die Size
199 mm²
Graphics Features
DirectX
9.0a
OpenGL
1.5 (full)
2.0 (partial)
OpenCL
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
Pixel Shader
2.0a
Vertex Shader
2.0a
WDDM 1.0
Render Config
Pixel Shaders
4
Vertex Shaders
3
TMUs
8
ROPs
4
Max. TDP
44 W
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA NV30 GPU
Name
Chip
Memory
Shaders
TMUs
ROPs
GPU Clock
Memory Clock
128 MB
4 / 3
8
4
500 MHz
500 MHz
128 MB
4 / 3
8
4
400 MHz
400 MHz
NV30GL
128 MB
4 / 3
8
4
300 MHz
300 MHz
NV30GL
128 MB
4 / 3
8
4
400 MHz
400 MHz
NV30 GPU Notes
Latest Drivers:
Windows NT 4:
ForceWare Release 77.56
ForceWare Release 77.72 Desktop
Windows 95 / 98 / ME:
ForceWare Release 81.98
Windows 2000:
GeForce Release 93.71 / 93.81 Beta
Quadro Release 169.96
Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 175.19
Quadro Release 169.96
Windows Vista:
ForceWare Release 96.85
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