NVIDIA NV41

NV41

QDFX-1400P-N-B1

GO6800 U

NVIDIA's NV41 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 130 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 225 mm² and a transistor count of 190 million it is a medium-sized chip. NV41 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units and 8 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).

Further reading: GeForce 6 Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released: Apr 19th, 2004

GPU Name: NV41

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 130 nm

Transistors: 190 million

Density: 844.4K / mm²

Die Size: 225 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

WDDM: 1.0

PureVideo HD: VP1

VDPAU: No Support

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 12

Vertex Shaders: 5

TMUs: 12

ROPs: 8

Max. TDP: 150 W

All Curie 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 NV41 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6800		256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	325 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE		256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	325 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS		256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT		256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800		256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	300 MHz	550 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	QDFX-1400P-N-B1	128 MB	12 / 5	12	8	350 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI	NV41 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450	NV41 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra	GO6800 U	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	450 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400		256 MB	8 / 5	8	8	275 MHz	295 MHz

NV41 GPU Notes

PureVideo HD: VP1
VDPAU: No Support

Latest Drivers:
Windows 2000:
ForceWare Release 93.71 / 93.81 Beta
Quadro Release 261.19

Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 307.83
Quadro Release R310 U7 (312.69)

Windows Vista / 7 / 8:
GeForce Release 309.08
Quadro Release R310 U7 (312.69)

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