Release date | 2001-2003 2001 |
---|---|
Architecture | Kelvin |
Fabrication process | 150 nm |
API support | |
DirectX | 8.0 |
OpenGL | 1.2 (1.5) |
History | |
Predecessor | Celsius |
Successor | Rankine |
Support status | |
Unsupported |
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Kelvin is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2001, as the successor to Celsius[1] microarchitecture. It was named with reference to William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and used with the GeForce 3 and 4 series.
Graphics features
- DirectX 8.0 (8.1 in the original Xbox)
- OpenGL 1.2 (1.5;[2][3] 1.4 in the original Xbox)
- Shader Model 1.3
- Vertex Shader 1.1
- Max VRAM size bumped to 128MB
- New memory controller with Z compression[2]
Chips
- NV20, 57 million transistor
- NV2A (Xbox GPU), 57 million transistor[4]
- Crush11, 20 million transistor[5]
- NV17, 29 million transistor[6]
- NV18, 29 million transistor
- NV25, 63 million transistor
- NV28, 36 million transistor[7]
- NV2A (Xbox GPU), 57 million transistor[4]
GPU list
GeForce 3 (3xxx) series
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Bus interface | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Core config1 | Fillrate | Memory | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOperations/s | MPixels/s | MTexels/s | MVertices/s | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | ||||||||
GeForce3 Ti200 | 1 October 2001 | NV20 | TSMC 150 nm | AGP 4×
PCI |
175 | 200 | 4:1:8:4 | 700 | 700 | 1400 | 42.75 | 64
128 |
6.4 | DDR | 128 |
GeForce3 | 27 February 2001 | 200 | 230 | 800 | 800 | 1600 | 50 | 64 | 7.36 | ||||||
GeForce3 Ti500 | 1 October 2001 | 240 | 250 | 960 | 960 | 1920 | 60 | 64
128 |
8 |
GeForce 4 (4xxx) series
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Bus interface | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Core config1 | Fillrate | Memory | Supported API version | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOperations/s | MPixels/s | MTexels/s | MVertices/s | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | Direct3D | OpenGL | ||||||||
GeForce4 MX IGP + nForce2 | 1 October 2002 | NV1F | TSMC 150 nm | FSB | 250 | 133
200[citation needed] |
2:0:4:2 | 500 | 500 | 1000 | 0 | Up to 128 system RAM | 2.128
6.4[citation needed] |
DDR | 64
128 |
7.0 | 1.2 |
GeForce4 MX420 | 6 February 2002 | NV17 | AGP 4×
PCI |
166 | 64 | 2.656 | SDR
DDR |
128 (SDR)
64 (DDR) | |||||||||
GeForce4 MX440 SE | 2002 | 64
128 |
5.312 | DDR | 128 | ||||||||||||
GeForce MX4000 | 14 December 2003 | NV18B | AGP 8×
PCI |
2.656 | 64 | ||||||||||||
GeForce PCX4300 | 19 February 2004 | PCIe ×16 | 128 | ||||||||||||||
GeForce4 MX440 | 6 February 2002 | NV17 | AGP 4×
PCI |
275 | 200 | 550 | 550 | 1100 | 64
128 |
6.4 | 128 | ||||||
GeForce4 MX440 8x | 25 September 2002 | NV18 | AGP 8×
PCI |
250 | 8 | ||||||||||||
GeForce4 MX460 | 6 February 2002 | NV17 | AGP 4×
PCI |
300 | 275 | 600 | 600 | 1200 | |||||||||
GeForce4 Ti4200 | 16 April 2002 | NV25 | AGP 4× | 250 | 222 (128 MB)
250 (64 MB) |
4:2:8:4 | 1000 | 1000 | 2000 | 125 | 7.104 (128 MB)
8 (64 MB) |
8.0a | 1.3 | ||||
GeForce4 Ti4200 8x | 25 September 2002 | NV28 | AGP 8× | 250 | 128 | 8 | |||||||||||
GeForce4 Ti4400 | 6 February 2002 | NV25 | AGP 4× | 275 | 275 | 1100 | 1100 | 2200 | 137.5 | 8.8 | |||||||
GeForce4 Ti4400 8x
(Ti4800SE2) |
20 January 2003 | NV28 | AGP 8× | ||||||||||||||
GeForce4 Ti4600 | 6 February 2002 | NV25 | AGP 4× | 300 | 325 | 1200 | 1200 | 2400 | 150 | 10.4 | |||||||
GeForce4 Ti4600 8x
(Ti48003) |
20 January 2003 | NV28 | AGP 8× | ||||||||||||||
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Bus interface | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Core config1 | Fillrate | Memory | Supported API version | |||||||
MOperations/s | MPixels/s | MTexels/s | MVertices/s | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | Direct3D | OpenGL |
Model | Features | |
---|---|---|
nFiniteFX II Engine | Video Processing Engine (VPE) | |
GeForce4 MX420 | No | Yes |
GeForce4 MX440 SE | No | Yes |
GeForce4 MX4000 | No | Yes |
GeForce4 PCX4300 | No | Yes |
GeForce4 MX440 | No | Yes |
GeForce4 MX440 8X | No | Yes |
GeForce4 MX460 | No | Yes |
GeForce4 Ti4200 | Yes | No |
GeForce4 Ti4200 8x | Yes | No |
GeForce4 Ti4400 | Yes | No |
GeForce4 Ti4400 8x | Yes | No |
GeForce4 Ti4600 | Yes | No |
GeForce4 Ti4600 8x | Yes | No |
Console GPUs
Model | Launch | Code name | Fab (nm) | Bus interface | Core clock (MHz) | Memory clock (MHz) | Core config1,2,3 | Fillrate | Memory | Latest supported API version | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOperations/s | MTexels/s | MPixels/s | MTri/s | Size (MB) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | Bus width (bit) | Direct3D | OpenGL | ||||||||||
XGPU (Xbox) [8][9] |
November 15, 2001 | NV2A | TSMC 150 nm | Integrated | 233 | 200 | 4:2:8:41 | 5,800 | 1,864 | 932 | 116.5 | 64 | 6.4 | DDR | 128 | 8.1 | 1.4 |
See also
- List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
- List of Nvidia graphics processing units
- Qualcomm Adreno
- Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
References
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- ^ a b "GPU chips — envytools git documentation". envytools.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "TechPowerUp". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ a b "NVIDIA Xbox GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 220 Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "NVIDIA NV17 GPU Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4800 Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Anandtech Microsoft's Xbox". Anandtech.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ Smith, Tony (14 February 2001). "TSMC starts fabbing Nvidia Xbox chips". The Register. Retrieved 20 November 2019.