NVIDIA G73

G73

G73-GT-N-A2

G73-VZ-N-B1

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Die Shot

NVIDIA's G73 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 90 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 125 mm² and a transistor count of 177 million it is a small chip. G73 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units and 8 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

GPU Name: G73

Codename: NV4B

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 90 nm

Transistors: 177 million

Density: 1.4M / mm²

Die Size: 125 mm²

Released: Mar 1st, 2006

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.1

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

PureVideo HD: VP1

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 12

Vertex Shaders: 5

TMUs: 12

ROPs: 8

Max. TDP: 40 W

Tex L1 Cache: 16 KB per 4 PS

Tex L2 Cache: 32 KB per 4 PS

All Curie GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

1998-2000 Fahrenheit
1999-2005 Celsius
2001-2003 Kelvin
2003-2005 Rankine
2003-2013 Curie
2006-2010 Tesla
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2010-2016 Fermi
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2016-2021 Pascal
2017-2020 Volta
2018-2022 Turing
2020-2022 Ampere
2022 Hopper
2022-2023 Lovelace

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA G73 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT	G73-GT-N-A2	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	560 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS	G73-N-B1	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT	G73-VZ-N-B1	128 MB	8 / 4	8	8	350 MHz	325 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT AGP	G73-VZ-N-B1	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	560 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS AGP	G73-VZ-N-B1	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 560		128 MB	12 / 5	12	8	350 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300M		256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	500 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700	GF-GO7700-N-B1	512 MB	12 / 5	12	8	450 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600	GF-GO7600-N-A2	256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	450 MHz	350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT	GF-GO7600-SE-N-B1	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	500 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 LE	G73-VZ-N-B1	256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS	G73-VZ-N-B1	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	450 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M		512 MB	12 / 5	12	8	480 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 SE		256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	350 MHz	333 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT Mac Edition	G73-GT-N-A2	128 MB	8 / 4	8	8	350 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Mac Edition	G73-GT-N-A2	256 MB	12 / 5	12	8	560 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT AGP	G73-VZ-N-B1	128 MB	8 / 4	8	8	350 MHz	325 MHz