NVIDIA G84

G84

G84-303-A2

G84-875-A2

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Block Diagram

TPC Diagram

NVIDIA's G84 GPU uses the Tesla architecture and is made using a 80 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 169 mm² and a transistor count of 289 million it is a small chip. G84 supports DirectX 11.1 (Feature Level 10_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.1 and CUDA 1.1 can be used. It features 32 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 8 ROPs.

Further reading: Tesla Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released: Apr 17th, 2007

GPU Name: G84

Codename: NV84

Architecture: Tesla

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 80 nm

Transistors: 289 million

Density: 1.7M / mm²

Die Size: 169 mm²

Package: BGA-820

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.1 (10_0)

OpenGL: 3.3

OpenCL: 1.1

Vulkan: N/A

CUDA: 1.1

Shader Model: 4.0

WDDM: 1.2

PureVideo HD: VP2

VDPAU: Feature Set A

Render Config

Shading Units: 32

TMUs: 16

ROPs: 8

SM Count: 4

SFUs: 8

TPCs: 2

Tex L1 Cache: 16 KB per TPC

L2 Cache: 64 KB

Max. TDP: 75 W

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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 G84 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT	G84-303-A2	512 MB	32	16	8	540 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS	G84-400-A2	256 MB	32	16	8	675 MHz	1000 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT	NB8P-GS	512 MB	32	16	8	475 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 370		256 MB	16	8	4	360 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570		256 MB	16	8	8	460 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700	G84-875-A2	512 MB	32	16	8	460 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M	NB8P-GL	512 MB	32	16	8	475 MHz	702 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M	NB8P-GLM	512 MB	32	16	8	625 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M		512 MB	32	16	8	575 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	NB9P-GS1-A2	512 MB	32	16	8	625 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS	NB9P-GE1-A2	512 MB	32	16	8	475 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT	NB8E-SE	512 MB	32	16	8	625 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS		512 MB	16	8	8	540 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition	G84-400-A2	512 MB	32	16	8	675 MHz	1008 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition	G84-303-A2	128 MB	32	16	8	600 MHz	750 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition	NB8P-GS	512 MB	32	16	8	470 MHz	635 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition		512 MB	32	16	8	520 MHz	650 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT	NB9P-GE	512 MB	32	16	8	475 MHz	400 MHz