NVIDIA GF104

GF104

GF104-300-KA-A1

N12E-GTX-A1

N12E-Q1-A1

N12E-Q3-A1

Block Diagram

SM Diagram

NVIDIA's GF104 GPU uses the Fermi architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 332 mm² and a transistor count of 1,950 million it is a large chip. GF104 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.1 and CUDA 2.1 can be used. It features 384 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.

Further reading: Fermi Compute Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Jul 12th, 2010

GPU Name: GF104

Codename: NVC4

Architecture: Fermi

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 1,950 million

Density: 5.9M / mm²

Die Size: 332 mm²

Package: BGA-1724

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: 384

TMUs: 64

ROPs: 32

SM Count: 8

SFUs: 64

GPCs: 2

L1 Cache: 64 KB per SM

L2 Cache: 512 KB

Max. TDP: 160 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 GF104 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	GF104-325-A1	1024 MB	336	56	32	675 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE	GF104-225-A1	1024 MB	288	48	32	650 MHz	850 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M	N12E-GTX-A1	2 GB	384	64	32	575 MHz	750 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro 4000M	N12E-Q3-A1	2 GB	336	56	32	475 MHz	625 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro 3000M	N12E-Q1-A1	2 GB	240	40	32	450 MHz	625 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M	N11E-GT	1536 MB	288	48	24	535 MHz	750 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM	GF104-325-A1	1024 MB	336	56	32	650 MHz	850 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2	GF104-300-KB-A1	1024 MB	336	56	32	701 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	GF104-300-KB-A1	768 MB	336	56	24	675 MHz	900 MHz

GF104 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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