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NVIDIA NV43

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NV43
NV43 PCIe
NV43 PCIe
QDFX-GO540-N-A4
QDFX-GO540-N-A4
Go6200TE NPB
Go6200TE NPB
Go6600 NPB
Go6600 NPB
NVS440 NPB
NVS440 NPB
NV43 BGA
NV43 BGA
Die Shot
Die Shot
NVIDIA's NV43 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 110 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 154 mm² and a transistor count of 146 million it is a small chip. NV43 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 3 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).
Further reading: GeForce 6 Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released
Aug 9th, 2004
GPU Name
NV43
Architecture
Curie
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
110 nm
Transistors
146 million
Density
948.1K / mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Package
BGA-825

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
8
Vertex Shaders
3
TMUs
8
ROPs
4
Max. TDP
47 W

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA NV43 GPU

Name Chip Memory Shaders TMUs ROPs GPU Clock Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 500 MHz 500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
128 MB 4 / 3 4 2 300 MHz 275 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 500 MHz 475 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600
256 MB 8 / 3 8 4 300 MHz 250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE
128 MB 4 / 3 4 4 300 MHz 250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP
128 MB 4 / 3 4 4 300 MHz 200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE PCI
256 MB 4 / 3 4 2 300 MHz 266 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
NV43 GL 128 MB 4 / 3 8 4 360 MHz 400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
NV43 GL 128 MB 4 / 3 8 4 300 MHz 250 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16
NVS440 NPB 128 MB 4 / 3 8 4 250 MHz 250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
NV43M A2 256 MB 8 / 3 8 4 300 MHz 350 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540
QDFX-GO540-N-A4 128 MB 4 / 3 8 4 300 MHz 225 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 400 MHz 400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE
128 MB 4 / 2 4 4 300 MHz 200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6700 XL
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 525 MHz 550 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 500 MHz 560 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE
NV43M A2 128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 225 MHz 200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 TE
Go6200TE NPB 64 MB 4 / 3 4 4 300 MHz 300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 NPB 128M
Go6600 NPB 128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 375 MHz 300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP
128 MB 8 / 3 8 4 300 MHz 250 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x1
NVS440 NPB 128 MB 4 / 3 8 4 250 MHz 250 MHz

NV43 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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