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GeForce 6 series. The GeForce 6 series (codename NV40) is the sixth generation of Nvidia 's GeForce line of graphics processing units. Launched on April 14, 2004, the GeForce 6 family introduced PureVideo post-processing for video, SLI technology, and Shader Model 3.0 support (compliant with Microsoft DirectX 9.0c specification and OpenGL 2.0).
Onboard GeForce 320M. Used in 13” Apple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models in 2010. A static amount of 256 MiB of system RAM used as VRAM. Supported DirectX 10.1 instead of 10.0, unlike earlier chipsets. Similarly, audio w/ video is supported over its mini-DP port, whereas prior chipsets only supported video out.
Curie (microarchitecture) Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2004, as the successor to Rankine [1] microarchitecture. It was named with reference to the Polish physicist Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie and used with the GeForce 6 and 7 series. Curie was followed by Tesla.
nForce is a motherboard chipset created by Nvidia originally for AMD Athlon and Duron, with later revisions also supporting contemporary Intel processors. The chipset shipped in 3 varieties; 220, 415, and 420. 220 and 420 are very similar with each having the integrated GPU, but the 220 only has a single channel of memory available whereas 420 has the 128-bit TwinBank design.
Miscellaneous. Release date (s) October 2004. Predecessor. nForce3. Successor. nForce 500. The nForce4 is a motherboard chipset released by Nvidia in October 2004. The chipset supports AMD 64-bit processors (Socket 939, Socket AM2 and Socket 754) and Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775 processors.
GeForce 6150 SE No No Driver-Side Only Limited GeForce 6150 No No No Yes GeForce 6150 LE No No Driver-Side Only Yes GeForce 6200 No No Yes (PCIe only) Yes GeForce 6500 No Yes Yes Yes GeForce 6600 LE Yes Yes (No SLI Connector) No Yes GeForce 6600 Yes Yes (SLI Connector or PCIe Interface) No Yes GeForce 6600 DDR2 Yes
In the middle: the FOSS stack, composed out of DRM & KMS driver, libDRM and Mesa 3D.Right side: Proprietary drivers: Kernel BLOB and User-space components. nouveau (/ n uː ˈ v oʊ /) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.
A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application programming interfaces (APIs) and is released under a free and open-source software license. Graphics device drivers are written for specific hardware to work within a specific operating system ...