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NVIDIA GK106

GK106

GK106-200-A1

GK106-220-A1

GK106-240-A1

GK106-400-A1

N14E-GE-A1

N14E-GE-B-A1

N14E-GL-A1

N14E-GS-A1

N15P-Q3-A1

Die Shot

Block Diagram

650 Ti Block Diagram

SMX Diagram

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 3.0 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: 3.0

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 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	GK106-400-A1	2 GB	960	80	24	980 MHz	1032 MHz	1502 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti	GK106-220-A1	1024 MB	768	64	16	928 MHz		1350 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro K4000		3 GB	768	64	24	810 MHz		1404 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost	GK106-240-A1	2 GB	768	64	24	980 MHz	1032 MHz	1502 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M	N14E-GS-A1	3 GB	960	80	24	706 MHz	797 MHz	1002 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM		2 GB	768	64	16	928 MHz		1350 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M	N14E-GL-A1	2 GB	768	64	16	628 MHz	657 MHz	1002 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M	N14E-GE-B-A1	2 GB	768	64	16	797 MHz	863 MHz	1002 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 OEM	GK106-200-A1	1024 MB	576	48	16	824 MHz		1000 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M	N15P-Q3-A1	2 GB	576	48	16	667 MHz		752 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650		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