NVIDIA G72

G72

GF-7300GS-N-A3

GF-GO7300-N-A3

QD-NVS-110M-N-A3

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NVIDIA's G72 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 81 mm² and a transistor count of 112 million it is a very small chip. G72 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 8 pixel shaders and 5 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 18th, 2006

GPU Name: G72

Codename: NV46

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 90 nm

Transistors: 112 million

Density: 1.4M / mm²

Die Size: 81 mm²

Package: BGA-533

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.1

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

WDDM: 1.0

PureVideo HD: VP1

VDPAU: No Support

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 8

Vertex Shaders: 5

TMUs: 8

ROPs: 4

Max. TDP: 23 W

Tex L1 Cache: 16 KB per 4 PS

Tex L2 Cache: 32 KB per 4 PS

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2025 Blackwell 2.0
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 G72 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS	GF-7200GS-N-B1	128 MB	2 / 2	4	2	450 MHz	334 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS	GF-7300GS-N-A3	256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE		256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE	GF-7300LE-N-A3	128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	324 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS Low Profile	GF-7300GS-N-A3	256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 350		128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	550 MHz	405 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M	QD-FX-350M-N-A3	256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	450 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M	QD-NVS-110M-N-A3	512 MB	4 / 3	4	2	300 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300T	GF-GO7300T-N-A3	64 MB	4 / 3	4	2	350 MHz	350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400	GF-GO7400-N-A3	128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	450 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400T	GF-GO7400T-N-A3	128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	450 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200	GF-GO7200-N-A3	64 MB	4 / 3	4	1	450 MHz	350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE		128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	450 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE		64 MB	8 / 5	8	4	475 MHz	405 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7450		64 MB	8 / 3	8	4	300 MHz	200 MHz

G72 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 179.48 (Notebooks)
GeForce Release 307.83
Quadro Release R310 U7 (312.69)

Windows Vista / 7:
GeForce Release 179.48 (Notebooks)
GeForce Release 309.08
Quadro Release R310 U7 (312.69)

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

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