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

GoForce

• GoForce

Tegra

• Tegra 2 • AP20H/AP25/T20/T25 (VEC4)
• Tegra 3 (Kal-El) • T30/T30L/T33/AP33
• Tegra 4 (Wayne) • T114 (VEC4)
• Tegra 4i (Grey) • T148? (VEC4)
• Tegra K1 (Logan) • T124 • T132 (Denver)
• Tegra X1 (Erista) • T210 (Maxwell)
• Tegra X1+ (Mariko) • T214 (Maxwell)
• Tegra X2 (Parker) • T186 (Denver 2)
• Tegra Xavier • T194 (Carmel/Volta)
• Tegra Orin • T234 (Hercules) • T239 (Drake)
• Tegra Grace • T241 (Neoverse V2)
• Tegra Thor • T264? (Neoverse V3AE)

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 (Kal-El)	Tegra 4 (Wayne)	Tegra 4i (Grey)	Tegra K1 (Logan)		Tegra X1 (Erista)	Tegra X1+ (Mariko)	Tegra X2 (Parker)	Tegra Xavier	Tegra Orin	Tegra Thor
CPU	Models	AP25/T25	T30/T33	T114	T148	T124	T132	T210	T214	T186	T194	T234	T264?
	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 Denver 2 + 4x ARM Cortex-A57	8x Carmel	12x Cortex -A78AE	14x Neoverse V3AE
	Instruction set	ARMv7‑A (32‑bit)					ARMv8‑A (64‑bit)				ARMv8.2‑A (64‑bit)		ARMv9.2‑A (64‑bit)
	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	14 MB
	L3 cache	N/A									4 MB	6 MB	16 MB
GPU	Architecture	Vec4				Kepler		Maxwell		Pascal	Volta	Ampere	Blackwell
	CUDA cores	4+4*	8+4*	48+24*	48+12*	192		256			512	2048	2540
	Tensor cores	N/A									64		96
	RT cores	N/A										8	?
RAM	Protocol	DDR2/ LPDDR2	DDR3/ LPDDR2	DDR3/ LPDDR3				LPDDR3/ LPDDR4	LPDDR4/ LPDDR4X			LPDDR5/5X
	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	273.0 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