CodeNames

This page contains a list of some NVIDIA chip code names and their corresponding official GeForce number

Be aware that this list may be outdated and incomplete. Nouveau aims to support all NVIDIA cards, but no effort is made to document which cards (and BIOSes) actually work, as this is deemed infeasible. Just try it and submit bug reports if it doesn't work.
Feel free to edit the page when your card is not listed.

General code names (supported cards)

Code name	Official Name	Nvidia 3D object codename
NV04	Riva TNT, TNT2	Fahrenheit
NV10	GeForce 256, GeForce 2, GeForce 4 MX	Celsius
NV20	GeForce 3, GeForce 4 Ti	Kelvin
NV30	GeForce 5 / GeForce FX	Rankine
NV40	GeForce 6, GeForce 7	Curie
NV50	GeForce 8, GeForce 9, GeForce 100, GeForce 200, GeForce 300	Tesla
NVC0	GeForce 400, GeForce 500	Fermi
NVE0	GeForce 600	Kepler

Detailed code names

Ancient

Not supported by nouveau.

Code name	Official Name
NV01	Diamond Edge 3D Supported by vesa driver
NV02	Never completed
NV03	Riva 128 Supported by nv driver

The cards are working in Linux, but with limited capabilities. Compiz and 3D do not work. There's also no proprietary driver.

NV04 family

First family supporting DMA FIFOs. 3d engine only supports drawing textured or 2-textured triangles, without hardware TCL.

Code name	Official Name
NV04	Riva TNT
NV05	Riva TNT2
NV0A	Aladdin TNT2 IGP

NV10 family

Added support for hardware TCL and a lot of other 3d features, enabling fully accelerated OpenGL 1.2.

Code name	Official Name
NV10	GeForce 256 Quadro
NV11	GeForce2 Go, MX Quadro2 (EX, MXR)
NV15	GeForce2 GTS, Pro, Ti Quadro2 Pro, GeForce2 Ultra
NV17	GeForce4 MX 420, MX 440, MX 440-SE (AGP 4x), MX 460 Quadro4 500 XGL, 550 XGL, Quadro NVS (100, 200)
NV18	GeForce4 MX 440-SE (AGP 8x), MX 440-8x, MX 4000, 420 Go, 440 Go, 460 Go Quadro4 380 XGL, 580 XGL, Quadro NVS (50, 280, 400), GeForce PCX 4300
NV1A	GeForce2 IGP
NV1F	GeForce4 MX IGP

NV19 is a marketing name for an NV18 card with a PCIe bridge chip.

NV20 family

Introduced basic shaders and hardware context-switching.

Code name	Official Name
NV20	GeForce3 (Ti) Quadro DCC
NV25	GeForce4 Ti 4200, Ti 4400, Ti 4600 Quadro4 700 XGL, 750 XGL, 900 XGL
NV28	GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X, Ti 4800 (SE), 4200 Go Quadro4 780 XGL, 980 XGL
NV2A	XBOX GPU

NV30 family

Has support for both vertex programs and fragment programs, in addition to fixed pipe engine.

Code name	Official Name
NV30	GeForce FX 5800 (Ultra) Quadro FX (1000, 2000)
NV31	GeForce FX 5600 (Ultra, XT, Go) Quadro FX 700
NV34	GeForce FX 5100 Go, 5200 (Ultra, Go), 5300, 5500, GeForce PCX 5300 Quadro FX (330, 500, 600 PCI), NVS 280
NV35	GeForce FX 5900 (ZT, XT, SE), 5950 Ultra, GeForce PCX 5900, 5950 Quadro FX (1300, 3000, 3000G)
NV36	GeForce FX 5700 (Ultra, VE, LE, Go), 5750, GeForce PCX 5750 Quadro FX 1100

The NV37/39 codenames are marketing names for NV34/36 cards with a PCIe bridge chip. NV38 is a marketing name for an NV35 with a BIOS modification.

NV40 family

Only vertex programs and fragment programs, fixed pipe engine removed.

Code name	Official Name
NV40	GeForce 6800 (Ultra, GT, GS, XT, LE) (AGP version) Quadro FX 4000 (SDI), GeForce 6800 (Ultra, GT, GTO) Quadro FX 3400, 4400
NV41	GeForce 6800 (XT, GTO, Go Ultra) Quadro FX 1400
NV42	GeForce 6800 (GS, Go) Quadro FX (3450, 4000 SDI)
NV43	GeForce 6200, 6500, 6600 (LE, GT, Go, Go TE, Go Ultra), 6700 XL Quadro FX (540, 540M, 550), NVS 440
NV44	GeForce 6200 (TC, Go), 6250 Go, 6400 Go, 7100 GS Quadro NVS 285
NV46 (G72)	GeForce 7200 (GS, Go), 7300 (LE, GS, Go), 7400 Go, 7500 LE Quadro FX 350(M), NVS (110M, 120M, 300M, 510M)
NV47 (G70)	GeForce 7800 (GS, GT, GTX, Go, Go GTX) Quadro FX 4500 (SDI, X2)
NV49 (G71)	GeForce 7900 (GS, GT, GTO, GTX, GX2, Go, Go GTX), 7950 (GT, GX2, Go GTX) Quadro FX (1500, 1500M, 3500, 5500, 550 SDI, 2500M, 3500M)
NV4A (NV44A)	GeForce 6200 AGP
NV4B (G73)	GeForce 7300 GT, 7600 (GS, GT, Go, Go GT), 7700 Go Quadro FX (550M, 560, 560M)
NV4C (MCP61)	GeForce 6150LE / nForce 400/405 GeForce 6150SE / Quadro NVS 210s / nForce 430
NV4E (C51/MCP51)	GeForce 6100 (Go) / nForce 410/430, 6150 (Go) / nForce 430
NV63 (MCP73)	GeForce 7050/7100/7150 / nForce 630i
NV67 (C67)	GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M, GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
NV68 (MCP68)	GeForce 7025/7050 / nForce 630a

NV50 family

Has unified shader architecture, can do GPGPU and CUDA, has virtual memory, quite different from previous cards.

Code name	Official Name
NV50 (G80)	GeForce 8800 (GTS, GTX, Ultra) Quadro FX (4600 (SDI), 5600)
NV84 (G84)	GeForce 8600 (GT,M GT, M GS), 8700M GT GeForce 9500M GS, 9650M GS Quadro FX (370, 570, 570M, 1600M, 1700), NVS 320M
NV86 (G86)	GeForce 8300 GS, 8400 (GS, M G, M GS, M GT), 8500 GT GeForce 9300M G Quadro FX 360M, NVS (130M, 135M, 140M, 290)
NV92 (G92)	GeForce 8800 (GT, GS, GTS 512, M GTS, M GTX) GeForce 9600 GSO, 9800 (GT, GTX, GTX+, GX2, M GT, M GTX) GeForce GTS 150(M), GTS 160M, GTS 240, GTS 250, GTX (260M, 280M, 285M), GT (330, 340) Quadro FX (2800M, 3600M, 3700, 3700M, 3800M, 4700 X2), VX 200
NV94 (G94)	GeForce 9600 (GSO 512, GT, S), 9700M GTS, 9800M GTS GeForce G 110M, GT 130(M), GT 140 Quadro FX (1800, 2700M)
NV96 (G96)	GeForce 9400 GT, 9500 (GT, M G), 9600 (M GS, M GT), 9650M GT, 9700M GT GeForce G 102M, GT 120 Quadro FX (380, 580, 770M, 1700M)
NV98 (G98)	GeForce 8400 GS GeForce 9200M GS, 9300 (GE, GS, M GS) GeForce G 100, G 105M Quadro FX (370 LP, 370M), NVS (150M, 160M, 295, 420, 450)
NVA0 (GT200)	GeForce GTX (260, 275, 280, 285, 295) Quadro CX, FX (3800, 4800, 5800)
NVA3 (GT215)	GeForce GT (240, 320, 335M), GTS (250M, 260M, 350M, 360M) Quadro FX 1800M
NVA5 (GT216)	GeForce GT (220, 230M, 240M, 325M, 330M), 315 Quadro 400, FX 880M, NVS 5100M
NVA8 (GT218)	GeForce 8400 GS (rare) ION 2, GeForce 205, 210, G 210M, 305M, 310(M), 405 Quadro FX (380 LP, 380M), NVS (300, 2100M, 3100M)
NVAA (MCP77/MCP78)	GeForce 8100, 8200, 8300 mGPU / nForce 700a series, 8200M G
NVAC (MCP79/MCP7A)	ION, GeForce 9300, 9400 mGPU / nForce 700i series, 8200M G, 9100M, 9400M (G)
NVAF (MCP89)	GeForce 320M

NVC0 family

All sorts of fun. Feature-wise it isn't too different but the architecture has changed a lot.
These cards are generally working with the latest kernel and Mesa but may still have power management issues. It is recommended to use the Linux 3.1 kernel or newer (or a backported driver from this kernel).
Note: GeForce 405 does not belong to this family.

Code name	Official Name
NVC0 (GF100)	GeForce GTX (465, 470, 480, 480M) Quadro 4000, 5000(M), 6000
NVC1 (GF108)	GeForce GT (415M, 420, 420M, 425M, 430, 435M, 520M, 525M, 530, 540M, 550M, 555M, 620, 630M, 635M, 640M LE) Quadro 600, 1000M
NVC3 (GF106)	GeForce GT (440, 445M, 545, 555M, 630M, 635M), GTS 450, GTX 460M Quadro 2000 (D), 2000M
NVC4 (GF104)	GeForce GTX (460, 460 SE, 470M, 485M) Quadro 5000M
NVC8 (GF110)	GeForce GTX (560 Ti OEM, 570, 580, 590) Quadro 3000M, 4000M, 5010M
NVCE (GF114)	GeForce GTX (460 v2, 560, 560 Ti, 570M, 580M, 670M, 675M)
NVCF (GF116)	GeForce GTS 450 v2, GTX (550 Ti, 560M)
NVD9 (GF119)	GeForce 410M, 510 (?), GT (520, 520M, 520MX), 610M Quadro NVS 4200M

NVE0 family

Work in progress. First family to support using 4 monitors simultaneously on one GPU, older generations had only 2 CRTCs.

Code name	Official Name
NVE4 (GK104)	GeForce GTX (670, 670M, 680, 680M, 690) Quadro K3000M, K4000M, K5000M
NVE7 (GK107)	GeForce GT (640M, 640M LE, 650M, 660M) Quadro K500M, K1000M, K2000M

Some 6xx series cards are from the NVC0 family instead.