NVIDIA G86

G86

G86-213-A2

G86-300-A2

G86-603-A2

G86-613-A2

G86-621-A2

G86-631-A2

G86-740-A2

G86-770-A2

G86-920-A2

NB8M-SE

NB9M-GS1

SIC66SIC66

Die Shot

TPC Diagram

NVIDIA's G86 GPU uses the Tesla architecture and is made using a 80 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 127 mm² and a transistor count of 210 million it is a small chip. G86 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 16 shading units, 8 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs.

Further reading: Tesla Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

GPU Name: G86

Codename: NV86

Architecture: Tesla

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 80 nm

Transistors: 210 million

Density: 1.7M / mm²

Die Size: 127 mm²

Released: Apr 17th, 2007

Graphics Features

DirectX: 11.1 (10_0)

OpenGL: 3.3

OpenCL: 1.1

Vulkan: N/A

CUDA: 1.1

Shader Model: 4.0

PureVideo HD: VP2

VDPAU: Feature Set A

Render Config

Shading Units: 16

TMUs: 8

ROPs: 4

SM Count: 2

SFUs: 4

TPCs: 2

Tex L1 Cache: 16 KB per TPC

L2 Cache: 32 KB

Max. TDP: 50 W

All Tesla 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 G86 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS	G86-213-A2	256 MB	16	8	4	459 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS		128 MB	8	8	4	459 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	G86-300-A2	256 MB	16	8	4	459 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M	NB8M-GLM	256 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290		256 MB	16	8	4	459 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 130M	G86-613-A2	256 MB	8	8	4	400 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M	G86-621-A2	256 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	594 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M	G86-740-A2	512 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G	NB9M-GS1	256 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS	G86-770-A2	512 MB	16	8	4	450 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT	G86-603-A2	512 MB	16	8	4	450 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS	NB8M-GS	256 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G	NB8M-SE	256 MB	8	8	4	400 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT		128 MB	16	8	4	459 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE		128 MB	16	8	4	459 MHz	400 MHz