GeForce 900 series
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"GM200" redirects here. For the radars, see Ground Master 200 and Ground Master 200 Multi Mission.
For GeForce cards with a model number of 9XX0, see GeForce 9 series.
The GeForce 900 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 700 series and serving as the high-end introduction to the Maxwell microarchitecture, named after James Clerk Maxwell. They are produced with TSMC's 28 nm process.
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Release date | September 18, 2014; 9 years ago (September 18, 2014) |
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Codename | GM20x |
Architecture | Fermi Kepler Maxwell |
Models | GeForce series
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Transistors | 2.94B (GM206)
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Fabrication process | TSMC 28 nm |
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DirectX | Direct3D 12 (feature level 12_1)[1][2][3][4] Shader Model 6.7 |
OpenCL | OpenCL 3.0[lower-alpha 1] |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
Vulkan | Vulkan 1.3[5] SPIR-V |
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Successor | GeForce 10 series |
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Fermi cards unsupported Security updates for Kepler until September 2024 Maxwell fully supported |
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With Maxwell, the successor to Kepler, Nvidia expected three major outcomes: improved graphics capabilities, simplified programming, and better energy efficiency compared to the GeForce 700 series and GeForce 600 series.[6]
Maxwell was announced in September 2010,[7] with the first Maxwell-based GeForce consumer-class products released in early 2014.[8]