This is how to get an (MSI) nVidia GeForce 210 graphics card working in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

This page contains a list of some NVIDIA chip code names and their corresponding official GeForce number. If you're running a recent version nouveau, you can find your chipset by doing dmesg grep -i chipset. This will always be correct, whereas the lists below are approximate.

Be aware that this list may be outdated and incomplete.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.
You can look at the feature matrix to get an idea on which features are supported for your card family.

General code names

A code name ending with 'GL' (for example: 'NV30GL') indicates a professional-class (Quadro/Tesla) board.

Detailed code names

Ancient

Not supported by nouveau.

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

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NV04 family (Fahrenheit)

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

NV10 family (Celsius)

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

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

NV20 family (Kelvin)

Introduced basic shaders and hardware context-switching.

NV30 family (Rankine)

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

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 (Curie)

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

NV50 family (Tesla)

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

NVC0 family (Fermi)

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.

NVE0 family (Kepler)

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

Some 6xx & 7xx series cards are from the NVC0 family instead.

NV110 family (Maxwell)

NV130 family (Pascal)

NV140 family (Volta)

NV160 family (Turing)