NVIDIA NV15

NV15

GeForce2 GTS

GeForce2 GTS PRO

GeForce2 PRO

GeForce2 Ti

GeForce2 Ultra

NV15GL A4

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

NVIDIA's NV15 GPU uses the Celsius architecture and is made using a 180 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 88 mm² and a transistor count of 25 million it is a very small chip. NV15 supports DirectX 7.0. Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 4 pixel shaders and 0 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).

Graphics Processor

Released: Apr 26th, 2000

GPU Name: NV15

Architecture: Celsius

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 180 nm

Transistors: 25 million

Density: 284.1K / mm²

Die Size: 88 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 7.0

OpenGL: 1.5

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Pixel Shader: 0.5

Vertex Shader: N/A

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 4

Vertex Shaders: 0

TMUs: 8

ROPs: 4

All Celsius 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 NV15 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra	GeForce2 Ultra	64 MB	4 / 0	8	4	250 MHz	230 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti	GeForce2 Ti	64 MB	4 / 0	8	4	250 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce2 PRO	GeForce2 PRO	64 MB	4 / 0	8	4	200 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS	GeForce2 GTS	32 MB	4 / 0	8	4	200 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS PRO	GeForce2 GTS PRO	32 MB	4 / 0	8	4	200 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro	NV15GL A4	64 MB	4 / 0	8	4	200 MHz	250 MHz