NVIDIA G94

G94

G94-300-A1

G94 BGA

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

TPC Diagram

NVIDIA's G94 GPU uses the Tesla architecture and is made using a 65 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 240 mm² and a transistor count of 505 million it is a medium-sized chip. G94 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 64 shading units, 32 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.

Further reading: Tesla Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released: Feb 21st, 2008

GPU Name: G94

Codename: NV94

Architecture: Tesla

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 65 nm

Transistors: 505 million

Density: 2.1M / mm²

Die Size: 240 mm²

Package: BGA-1504

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: 64

TMUs: 32

ROPs: 16

SM Count: 8

SFUs: 16

TPCs: 4

Tex L1 Cache: 16 KB per TPC

L2 Cache: 64 KB

Max. TDP: 95 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 G94 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT	G94-300-A1	512 MB	64	32	16	650 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512	G94-300-A1	512 MB	48	24	16	650 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM	G94-300-A1	768 MB	48	24	12	500 MHz	1000 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800	G94 GL-U	768 MB	64	32	12	550 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M	NB9E-GLM2	512 MB	48	24	16	530 MHz	799 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M	N10E-GE1	1024 MB	64	32	16	400 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M	N10E-GS1	1024 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS	NB9E-GT	512 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS	NB9E-GS1	512 MB	64	32	16	530 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS	NB9E-GS	512 MB	48	24	16	530 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800S	9800S	512 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	799 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition	G94-300-A1	1024 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	266 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220		1024 MB	48	24	8	600 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS	NB9E-GT1	1024 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition	G94-300-A1	512 MB	64	32	16	600 MHz	700 MHz