NVIDIA
Type	Public
Founded	1993
Founder	Jen-Hsun Huang Chris Malachowsky Curtis Priem
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California
Website	http://www.nvidia.com

NVIDIA Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company that focuses largely on graphics processing units for the gaming industry and machine learning applications. They also design various other chips, SoC, and consumer electronics for the mobile and automotive markets.

GPU Families

• NV1
• NV2
• Riva TNT
• Riva TNT2
• Riva 128
• GeForce 256

• GeForce 2
• GeForce 2 Go
• GeForce 3
• GeForce 4
• GeForce 4 Go
• GeForce FX
• GeForce FX Go 5
• GeForce 6
• GeForce Go 6

• GeForce 7
• GeForce Go 7
• GeForce 8
• GeForce 8M
• GeForce 9
• GeForce 9M

• GeForce 10
• GeForce 16
• Geforce RTX 20
• Geforce RTX 30
• Geforce RTX 40
• Geforce RTX 50

• GeForce 100
• GeForce 100M
• GeForce 200
• GeForce 200M
• GeForce 300
• GeForce 300M
• GeForce 400
• GeForce 400M
• GeForce 500
• GeForce 500M
• GeForce 600
• GeForce 600M

• GeForce 700
• GeForce 700M
• GeForce 800
• GeForce 800M
• GeForce 900
• GeForce 900M

• Quadro
• Quadro Go
• Quadro FX
• Quadro FX Go
• Quadro NVS
• Quadro RTX

• Tesla
• XGPU
• GRID
• RSX
• NVS
• DGX

CPU Families

• Tegra
• GoForce

Microarchitectures

GPUs:

• Tesla
• Fermi
• Kepler
• Maxwell
• Pascal
• Volta
• Turing
• Ampere

• Hopper
• Blackwell
• Celsius
• Curie
• Kelvin
• Rankine
• Ada Lovelace
• Rubin

CPU:

ARM:

• Denver
• Denver 2
• Carmel
• Tegra

RISC-V:

• NV-RISCV

NPU:

• NVDLA

Comparison

Tegra

Generation		Tegra 2	Tegra 3	Tegra 4	Tegra 4i	Tegra K1		Tegra X1	Tegra X1+	Tegra X2	Xavier	Orin	Thor
CPU	Instruction set	ARMv7‑A (32‑bit)					ARMv8‑A (64‑bit)				ARMv8.2‑A (64‑bit)		ARMv9.2‑A (64‑bit)
	Cores	2x ARM Cortex-A9	4+1x ARM Cortex-A9	4+1x ARM Cortex-A15	4+1x ARM Cortex-A9	4+1x ARM Cortex-A15	2x Denver	4x ARM Cortex-A53 (disabled) + 4x ARM Cortex-A57		2x Denver2 + 4x ARM Cortex-A57	8x Carmel	12x Cortex -A78AE	Neoverse V3AE
	L1 cache (I/D)	32/32KB					128/64KB	32/32KB + 64/32KB		128/64KB + 48/32KB	128/64KB	64/64KB
	L2 cache	1 MB		2 MB				128KB + 2MB		2MB + 2MB	8 MB	3 MB	?
	L3 cache	N/A									4 MB	6 MB	?
GPU	Architecture	Vec4				Kepler		Maxwell		Pascal	Volta	Ampere	Blackwell
	CUDA cores	4+4*	8+4*	48+24*	48+12*	192		256			512	2048	?
	Tensor cores	N/A									64		?
	RT cores	N/A										8	?
RAM	Protocol	DDR2/ LPDDR2	DDR3/ LPDDR2	DDR3/ LPDDR3				LPDDR3/ LPDDR4	LPDDR4/ LPDDR4X			LPDDR5	?
	Max. size	1 GB	2 GB	4 GB		8 GB					64 GB		128 GB
	Bandwidth	2.7 GB/s	6.4 GB/s		7.5 GB/s	14.9 GB/s		25.6 GB/s	34.1 GB/s	59.7 GB/s	136.5 GB/s	204.8 GB/s	?
Process		40 nm		28 nm				20 nm	16 nm		12 nm	8 nm	4 nm

• VLIW-based Vec4: Pixel shaders + Vertex shaders. Since Kepler, Unified shaders are used.

Technology

• NVLink
• NVSwitch