NVIDIA NV5

Vanta LT

Vanta

Riva TNT2

Riva TNT2 64

Vanta-16

Riva TNT2 Ultra

Oleg Kashirin

Die Shot

NVIDIA's NV5 GPU uses the Fahrenheit architecture and is made using a 250 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 63 mm² and a transistor count of 15 million it is a very small chip. NV5 supports DirectX 6.0. For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version N/A can be used. It features 2 pixel shaders and 0 vertex shaders, 2 texture mapping units and 2 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).

Graphics Processor

Released: Mar 15th, 1999

GPU Name: NV5

Architecture: Fahrenheit

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 250 nm

Transistors: 15 million

Density: 238.1K / mm²

Die Size: 63 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 6.0

OpenGL: 1.2

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Pixel Shader: N/A

Vertex Shader: N/A

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 2

Vertex Shaders: 0

TMUs: 2

ROPs: 2

All Fahrenheit GPUs

NVIDIA NV4
NVIDIA NV5

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 NV5 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra	Riva TNT2 Ultra	32 MB	2 / 0	2	2	150 MHz	183 MHz
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 PRO	Riva TNT2	32 MB	2 / 0	2	2	143 MHz	167 MHz
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64	Riva TNT2	16 MB	2 / 0	2	2	125 MHz	143 MHz
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta-16	Vanta-16	16 MB	2 / 0	2	2	100 MHz	133 MHz
NVIDIA Vanta LT	Vanta LT	8 MB	2 / 0	2	2	105 MHz	100 MHz
NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 Vanta	Vanta	16 MB	2 / 0	2	2	100 MHz	133 MHz
NVIDIA Riva TNT2	Riva TNT2	16 MB	2 / 0	2	2	125 MHz	150 MHz