We collect NV video card hardware information here.

• envytools: THE repository of reverse engineered documentation and RE tools
• Block Architecture Diagram for the GeForce series
• block diagrams for the nouveau series 40 instruction format
• The the freenv project has some techical code in it's SVN (only for experts, not much useable)
• Shading FAQ for GeForce
• Texture formats supported by NVidia GPUs.
• Guard band clipping used to clip rendering output to viewport.
• names given to 3D objects on different cards :
  
  • nv10 - celsius
  • nv20 - kelvin
  • nv30 - rankine
  • nv40 - curie
  • nv50 - tesla
• RivaTV (particularly see the "rules" file)
• Nvidia bioses for TNT2 -> Geforce 4
• More Nvidia bioses
• Output load detection on nvidia hardware
• Surface layout details

Vertex Shading info

• http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~marchesin/perso/extensions/NV/vertex_program2.html Explanation of NV_vertex_program2 vertex shading extension
• http://www.pny.com/support/downloads/vertoTech/CineFXShaders.pdf Page 7 has a list of all vertex shading instructions it seems

Nvidia whitepapers

Architecture specific whitepapers:

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

Card specific documentations and whitepapers:

• GTX 200 technical breif
• GeForce 6 GPU architecture
• GTX 750TI whitepaper
• GF100 whitepaper
• GTX 1080 whitepaper

Want to know more about Nvidia chips?

• The nVidia card range in Wikipedia
• Review links

General, not related to NV cards

• Know your AGP card