NVIDIA NV44

NV44

NV44 A1

6200TC

QD-NVS285-N-A2

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Die Shot

NVIDIA's NV44 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 110 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 110 mm² and a transistor count of 75 million it is a small chip. NV44 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 4 pixel shaders and 3 vertex shaders, 4 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: Oct 11th, 2004

GPU Name: NV44

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 110 nm

Transistors: 75 million

Density: 681.8K / mm²

Die Size: 110 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: 4

Vertex Shaders: 3

TMUs: 4

ROPs: 4

Max. TDP: 18 W

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

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 NV44 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP	NV44 A1	128 MB	4 / 2	4	4	350 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE AGP 512 MB	NV44 A1	512 MB	4 / 3	4	2	300 MHz	275 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE AGP	NV44 A1	128 MB	2 / 1	2	2	350 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE		64 MB	2 / 1	2	2	350 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6500		128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	400 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI		256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	280 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 SE TurboCache	6200TC	64 MB	4 / 3	4	2	350 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE		128 MB	2 / 1	2	2	350 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285	QD-NVS285-N-A2	128 MB	4 / 3	4	2	275 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400	GF-GO6400SQ-N-A2	32 MB	4 / 3	4	2	400 MHz	350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP	NV44 A1	256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	350 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 X2 PCI		256 MB	4 / 3	4	2	280 MHz	200 MHz