NVIDIA GF106
NVIDIA's GF106 GPU uses the Fermi architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 238 mm² and a transistor count of 1,170 million it is a medium-sized chip. GF106 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.1 and CUDA 2.1 can be used. It features 192 shading units, 32 texture mapping units and 24 ROPs.
Further reading:
Fermi Compute Architecture

Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- GF106
- Codename
- NVC3
- Architecture
- Fermi
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 40 nm
- Transistors
- 1,170 million
- Density
- 4.9M / mm²
- Die Size
- 238 mm²
- Released
- Sep 3rd, 2010
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_0)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.1
- Vulkan
- N/A
- CUDA
- 2.1
- Shader Model
- 5.1
- PureVideo HD
- VP4
- VDPAU
- Feature Set C
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 192
- TMUs
- 32
- ROPs
- 24
- SM Count
- 4
- SFUs
- 32
- GPCs
- 1
- L1 Cache
- 64 KB per SM
- L2 Cache
- 384 KB
- Max. TDP
- 106 W
All Fermi GPUs
- NVIDIA GF100
- NVIDIA GF104
- NVIDIA GF106
- NVIDIA GF108
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
- 2018-2021 Turing
- 2020-2021 Ampere
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GF106 GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | GPU Clock | Memory Clock |
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 OEM
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1536 MB | 144 | 24 | 24 | 810 MHz | 900 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM
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GF106-250-KB-A1 | 1536 MB | 144 | 24 | 24 | 790 MHz | 1000 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro 2000
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GF106-875-KA-A1 | 1024 MB | 192 | 32 | 16 | 625 MHz | 650 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro 2000D
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GF106-875-KA-A1 | 1024 MB | 192 | 32 | 16 | 625 MHz | 650 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro 2000M
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N12P-Q3 | 2 GB | 192 | 32 | 16 | 550 MHz | 900 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
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1536 MB | 144 | 24 | 24 | 590 MHz | 900 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
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N12E-GE-B-A1 | 1024 MB | 144 | 24 | 16 | 525 MHz | 900 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
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N11E-GE-A1 | 1024 MB | 144 | 24 | 16 | 570 MHz | 625 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M
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N11E-GE-A1 | 3 GB | 144 | 24 | 24 | 590 MHz | 800 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M
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N11E-GS-A1 | 1536 MB | 192 | 32 | 24 | 675 MHz | 625 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
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GF106-250-KA-A1 | 1024 MB | 192 | 32 | 16 | 783 MHz | 902 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
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1024 MB | 144 | 24 | 16 | 590 MHz | 900 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M
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N11E-GE-A1 | 1024 MB | 96 | 16 | 16 | 590 MHz | 800 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM
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512 MB | 144 | 24 | 16 | 783 MHz | 902 MHz |