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NVIDIA GK106S
GK106S
GK106S BGA
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NVIDIA's GK106S 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. GK106S supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 3.0 and CUDA 3.0 can be used. It features 768 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.
Graphics Processor
Released
Oct 9th, 2012
GPU Name
GK106S
Codename NVE6
Architecture
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
2,540 million
Density
11.5M / mm²
Die Size
221 mm²
Package
BGA-908
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.175
CUDA
3.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
WDDM 3.0
NVENC 1st Gen
NVDEC 1st Gen
PureVideo HD VP5
VDPAU Feature Set D
Render Config
Shading Units
768
TMUs
64
ROPs
16
SMX Count
4
SFUs 128
GPCs 3
Tex L1 Cache 48 KB per SMX
L1 Cache
16 KB per SMX
L2 Cache
256 KB
Max. TDP
110 W
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GK106S GPU
Name
Chip
Memory
Shaders
TMUs
ROPs
GPU Clock
Memory Clock
GK106-220-A1
1024 MB
768
64
16
928 MHz
1350 MHz
N14E-GL-A1
2 GB
768
64
16
628 MHz
1002 MHz
GK106-200-A1
1024 MB
576
48
16
824 MHz
1000 MHz
N15P-Q3-A1
2 GB
576
48
16
667 MHz
752 MHz
1024 MB
384
32
16
1006 MHz
1253 MHz
1024 MB
384
32
16
980 MHz
1253 MHz
GK106S GPU Notes
NVENC: 1st Gen
NVDEC: 1st Gen
PureVideo HD: VP5
VDPAU: Feature Set D
L1 Cache is configurable from 16 KB up to 48 KB per SMX
Latest Drivers:
Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
Quadro Release R319 U2 (321.01)
Windows Vista:
GeForce Release 365.19
Quadro Release R346 U7 (348.40) / R352 BETA (352.86)
Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11 (x32 / x64):
GeForce Release 391.35 / 474.89
Quadro Release R390 U9 (392.37) / R470 U16 (474.82)
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