NVIDIA NV41

NV41

QDFX-1400P-N-B1

GO6800 U

NVIDIA's NV41 GPU uses the Curie architecture and is made using a 130 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 225 mm² and a transistor count of 222 million it is a medium-sized chip. NV41 supports DirectX 9.0c (Feature Level 9_3). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 12 pixel shaders and 5 vertex shaders, 12 texture mapping units and 12 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support).

Further reading: GeForce 6 Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released: Apr 19th, 2004

GPU Name: NV41

Architecture: Curie

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 130 nm

Transistors: 222 million

Density: 986.7K / mm²

Die Size: 225 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 9.0c (9_3)

OpenGL: 2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 3.0

WDDM: 1.0

PureVideo HD: VP1

VDPAU: No Support

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 12

Vertex Shaders: 5

TMUs: 12

ROPs: 12

Max. TDP: 150 W

All Curie GPUs

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 NV41 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce 6800		256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	325 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE		256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	325 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS		256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT		256 MB	8 / 4	8	8	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800		256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	300 MHz	550 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400	QDFX-1400P-N-B1	128 MB	12 / 5	12	8	350 MHz	300 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI	NV41 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450	NV41 GL	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	425 MHz	500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra	GO6800 U	256 MB	12 / 5	12	12	450 MHz	600 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400		256 MB	8 / 5	8	8	275 MHz	295 MHz