NVIDIA NV45

NV45

NV45 GL

NVIDIA's NV45 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 130 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 287 mm² and a transistor count of 222 million it is a medium-sized chip. NV45 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 16 pixel shaders and 6 vertex shaders, 16 texture mapping units and 16 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: Apr 14th, 2004

GPU Name: NV45

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 130 nm

Transistors: 222 million

Density: 773.5K / mm²

Die Size: 287 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: 16

Vertex Shaders: 6

TMUs: 16

ROPs: 16

Max. TDP: 101 W

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

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 NV45 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT	6800 GT	256 MB	16 / 6	16	16	350 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO	6800 GT	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	350 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra	6800 Ultra	256 MB	16 / 6	16	16	425 MHz	550 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400	NV45 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	350 MHz	450 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400	NV45 GL	512 MB	16 / 6	16	16	375 MHz	525 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT Dual		256 MB	16 / 6	16	16	350 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400G	NV45 GL	512 MB	16 / 6	16	16	375 MHz	525 MHz