NVIDIA GK106
NVIDIA's GK106 GPU uses the Kepler architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 221 mm² and a transistor count of 2,540 million it is a medium-sized chip. GK106 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 and CUDA 3.0 can be used. It features 960 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.
Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- GK106
- Codename
- NVE6
- Architecture
- Kepler
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 2,540 million
- Density
- 11.5M / mm²
- Die Size
- 221 mm²
- Released
- Sep 6th, 2012
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (11_0)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.1
- CUDA
- 3.0
- Shader Model
- 5.1
- PureVideo HD
- VP5
- VDPAU
- Feature Set D
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 960
- TMUs
- 80
- ROPs
- 32
- SMX Count
- 5
- SFUs
- 128
- GPCs
- 3
- Tex L1 Cache
- 48 KB per SMX
- L1 Cache
- 16 KB per SMX
- L2 Cache
- 512 KB
- Max. TDP
- 150 W
All Kepler GPUs
- NVIDIA GK104
- NVIDIA GK106
- NVIDIA GK107
- NVIDIA GK110
- NVIDIA GK110B
- NVIDIA GK180
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 GK106 GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
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GK106-400-A1 | 2 GB | 960 | 80 | 24 | 980 MHz | 1032 MHz | 1502 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
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GK106-220-A1 | 1024 MB | 768 | 64 | 16 | 928 MHz | 1350 MHz | |
NVIDIA Quadro K4000
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3 GB | 768 | 64 | 24 | 810 MHz | 1404 MHz | ||
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
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GK106-240-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 64 | 24 | 980 MHz | 1032 MHz | 1502 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M
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N14E-GS-A1 | 3 GB | 960 | 80 | 24 | 706 MHz | 797 MHz | 1002 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM
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2 GB | 768 | 64 | 16 | 928 MHz | 1350 MHz | ||
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M
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N14E-GL-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 64 | 16 | 628 MHz | 657 MHz | 1002 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M
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N14E-GE-B-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 64 | 16 | 797 MHz | 863 MHz | 1002 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 OEM
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GK106-200-A1 | 1024 MB | 576 | 48 | 16 | 824 MHz | 1000 MHz | |
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
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N15P-Q3-A1 | 2 GB | 576 | 48 | 16 | 667 MHz | 752 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
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1024 MB | 384 | 32 | 16 | 1058 MHz | 1250 MHz | ||
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti OEM | 2 GB | 960 | 80 | 32 | 1033 MHz | 1098 MHz | 1502 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A | N14E-GL-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 64 | 16 | 628 MHz | 657 MHz | 1002 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM | 1024 MB | 384 | 32 | 16 | 1006 MHz | 1253 MHz | ||
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 OEM | 1024 MB | 384 | 32 | 16 | 1050 MHz | 1253 MHz |
GK106 GPU Notes
L1 Cache is configurable from 16 KB up to 48 KB per SMX |