NVIDIA GF106

GF106

GF106-250-KA-A1

GF106-250-KB-A1

GF106-875-KA-A1

N11E-GE-A1

N11E-GS-A1

N12E-GE-B-A1

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

Block Diagram

SM Diagram

NVIDIA's GF106 GPU uses the Fermi architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 238 mm² and a transistor count of 1,170 million it is a medium-sized chip. GF106 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.1 and CUDA 2.1 can be used. It features 192 shading units, 32 texture mapping units and 24 ROPs.

Further reading: Fermi Compute Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Sep 3rd, 2010

GPU Name: GF106

Codename: NVC3

Architecture: Fermi

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 1,170 million

Density: 4.9M / mm²

Die Size: 238 mm²

Package: BGA-973

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 1.1

Vulkan: N/A

CUDA: 2.1

Shader Model: 5.1

WDDM: 2.3

PureVideo HD: VP4

VDPAU: Feature Set C

Render Config

Shading Units: 192

TMUs: 32

ROPs: 24

SM Count: 4

SFUs: 32

GPCs: 1

L1 Cache: 64 KB per SM

L2 Cache: 384 KB

Max. TDP: 106 W

All Fermi 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 GF106 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM		1536 MB	144	24	24	810 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM	GF106-250-KB-A1	1536 MB	144	24	24	790 MHz	1000 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro 2000	GF106-875-KA-A1	1024 MB	192	32	16	625 MHz	650 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro 2000D	GF106-875-KA-A1	1024 MB	192	32	16	625 MHz	650 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M	N12P-Q3	2 GB	192	32	16	550 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3 GB		3 GB	144	24	24	590 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M	N12E-GE-B-A1	1024 MB	144	24	16	525 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M	N11E-GE-A1	1024 MB	144	24	16	570 MHz	625 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M	N11E-GE-A1	3 GB	144	24	24	590 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M	N11E-GS-A1	1536 MB	192	32	24	675 MHz	625 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	GF106-250-KA-A1	1024 MB	192	32	16	783 MHz	902 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M		1024 MB	144	24	16	590 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M	N11E-GE-A1	1024 MB	96	16	16	590 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM		512 MB	144	24	16	783 MHz	902 MHz

GF106 GPU Notes

PureVideo HD: VP4
VDPAU: Feature Set C

Latest Drivers:
Windows 2000:
Quadro Release 261.19

Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 368.81
Quadro Release R319 U2 (321.01)

Windows Vista:
GeForce Release 365.19
Quadro Release R346 U7 (348.40)

Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10:
GeForce Release 391.35
Quadro Release R375 U11 (377.83)

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