Excerpted from GPU Gems 2, “The GeForce 6 Series GPU Architecture” (Chapter 30) describes the architecture of the GeForce 6 Series family of GPUs, including details on the overall system architecture, vertex processor, fragment processor, and various other features. (Emmett Kilgariff and Randima Fernando. “The GeForce 6 Series GPU Architecture”, in GPU Gems 2, Addison-Wesley 2005.)