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The GeForce 6 Series GPU
Architecture
Emmett Kilgariff
NVIDIA Corporation
Randima Fernando
NVIDIA Corporation
Chapter 30
The previous chapter described how GPU architecture has changed as a result of compu-
tational and communications trends in microprocessing. This chapter describes the archi-
tecture of the GeForce 6 Series GPUs from NVIDIA, which owe their formidable
computational power to their ability to take advantage of these trends. Most notably, we
focus on the GeForce 6800 (NVIDIA’s...