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NVIDIA NV42

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NV42
6800 XT
6800 XT
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NVIDIA's NV42 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 110 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 222 mm² and a transistor count of 202 million it is a medium-sized chip. NV42 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
Sep 30th, 2005
GPU Name
NV42
Architecture
Curie
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
110 nm
Transistors
202 million
Density
909.9K / mm²
Die Size
222 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

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA NV42 GPU

Name Chip Memory Shaders TMUs ROPs GPU Clock Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
6800 XT 256 MB 12 / 5 12 8 450 MHz 600 MHz

NV42 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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