NVIDIA G96C

G96C

G96-630-C1

G96-650-C1

G96-875-C1

N10P-GV1

TPC Diagram

NVIDIA's G96C GPU uses the Tesla architecture and is made using a 55 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 121 mm² and a transistor count of 314 million it is a small chip. G96C 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: Jun 3rd, 2008

GPU Name: G96C

Codename: NV96

Architecture: Tesla

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 55 nm

Transistors: 314 million

Density: 2.6M / mm²

Die Size: 121 mm²

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: VP3

VDPAU: Feature Set B

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: 32 KB

Max. TDP: 50 W

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NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2024 Blackwell
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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 G96C GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 OEM		512 MB	32	16	8	738 MHz	504 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3	G96-300-C1	512 MB	32	16	8	550 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI		256 MB	16	8	4	550 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2		512 MB	16	8	4	550 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT	G96-650-C1	1024 MB	32	16	8	550 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580	G96-875-C1	512 MB	32	16	8	450 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce G110M	N10M-GE1-B	1024 MB	16	8	4	400 MHz	700 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M	N10P-GE1	1024 MB	32	16	8	600 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT	NB9P-GS	512 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	792 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS	NB9P-GE2	1024 MB	32	16	8	430 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M	N10P-GV2	1024 MB	32	16	8	550 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M	N10P-GV1	1024 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM		512 MB	16	8	4	550 MHz	504 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition		512 MB	32	16	8	550 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition		256 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	792 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE	N10P-GE1	512 MB	32	16	8	600 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition		512 MB	32	16	8	550 MHz	800 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition	NB9P-GS	512 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	792 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M	N10P-GV2	1024 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT	G96-200-C1	512 MB	16	8	4	550 MHz	400 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2		512 MB	32	16	8	500 MHz	500 MHz