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GeForce 200 series
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 released in January 2009; the flagship unit of the 200 series. This particular model was manufactured by one of Nvidia's board-partners, Inno3D.
Release dateJune 16, 2008; 15 years ago (June 16, 2008)
CodenameGT200
ArchitectureTesla
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
  • GeForce GTS series
  • GeForce GTX series
Transistors505M 55nm (G94b)
  • 754M 55nm (G92b)
  • 260M 40nm (GT218)
  • 486M 40nm (GT216)
  • 727M 40nm (GT215)
  • 1,400M 65nm (GT200a)
  • 1,400M 55nm (GT200b)
Cards
Entry-levelGT 205
GT 210
GT 220
GT 230
Mid-rangeGT 240
GTS 250
High-endGTX 260
GTX 275
GTX 280
EnthusiastGTX 285
GTX 295
API support
DirectXDirect3D 10.0 or 10.1
Shader Model 4.1
OpenCLOpenCL 1.1
OpenGLOpenGL 3.3
History
PredecessorGeForce 9 series
VariantGeForce 300 series
SuccessorGeForce 400 series
Support status
Unsupported

The GeForce 200 series is a series of Tesla-based GeForce graphics processing units developed by Nvidia.

Architecture

Main article: Tesla (microarchitecture)

The GeForce 200 series introduced Nvidia's second generation of Tesla (microarchitecture), Nvidia's unified shader architecture; the first major update to it since introduced with the GeForce 8 series.

The GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 are based on the same processor core. During the manufacturing process, GTX chips were binned and separated through defect testing of the core's logic functionality. Those that fail to meet the GTX 280 hardware specification are re-tested and binned as GTX 260 (which is specified with fewer stream processors, less ROPs and a narrower memory bus).

In late 2008, Nvidia re-released the GTX 260 with 216 stream processors, up from 192. Effectively, there were two GTX 260 cards in production with non-trivial performance differences.

The GeForce 200 series GPUs (GT200a/b GPU), excluding GeForce GTS 250, GTS 240 GPUs (these are older G92b GPUs), have double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. GT200 GPUs also have improved performance in geometry shading.

As of August 2018, the GT200 is the seventh largest commercial GPU ever constructed, consisting of 1.4 billion transistors covering a 576 mm2 die surface area built on a 65 nm process. It is the fifth largest CMOS-logic chip that has been fabricated at the TSMC foundry. The GeForce 400 series have since superseded the GT200 chips in transistor count, but the original GT200 dies still exceed the GF100 die size. It is larger than even the Kepler-based GK210 GPU used in the Tesla K80, which has 7.1 billion transistors on a 561 mm2 die manufactured in 28 nm.[1] The Ampere GA100 is currently the largest commercial GPU ever fabricated at 826 mm2 with 54.2 billion transistors.[2]

Nvidia officially announced and released the retail version of the previously OEM only GeForce 210 (GT218 GPU) and GeForce GT 220 (GT216 GPU) on October 12, 2009. Nvidia officially announced and released the GeForce GT 240 (GT215 GPU) on November 17, 2009. The new 40nm GPUs feature the new PureVideo HD VP4 decoder hardware in them, as the older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only have PureVideo HD VP2 or VP3 (G98). They also support Compute Capability 1.2, whereas older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only supported Compute Capability 1.1. All GT21x GPUs also contain an audio processor inside and support eight-channel LPCM output through HDMI.

Chipset table

GeForce 200 series

A XFX GTX 260

All models support Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing, Angle-Independent Anisotropic Filtering, 240-bit OpenEXR HDR.

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config 1 Clock rate Fillrate Memory configuration API support (version) Processing Power GFLOPS TDP (watts) Comments
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) DRAM type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan
GeForce 205 November 26, 2009 GT218 40 260 57 PCIe 2.0 x16 8:4:4 589 1402 1000 2.356 2.356 512 8 DDR2 64 10.1 3.3 — 33.4 30.5 OEM only
GeForce 210 October 12, 2009 GT218 40 260 57 PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe x1
PCI 		16:8:4 520
589 		1230
1402 		1000–1600 2.356 4.712 512
1024 		4.0
8.0
12.8 		DDR2
DDR3 		32
64 		67.296 30.5
GeForce GT 220 October 12, 2009 GT216 40 486 100 PCIe 2.0 x16 48:16:8 615(OEM)
625 		1335(OEM)
1360 		1000
1580 		5 10 512
1024 		16.0
25.3 		128 192(OEM)
196 		58
GeForce GT 230 v.1 2009 G94b 55 505 196 [3] PCIe 2.0 x16 48:24:16 650 1625 1800 10.4 15.6 512
1024 		57.6 GDDR3 256 10 234 75 OEM only
GeForce GT 230 v.2 2009 G92b 55 754 260 PCIe 2.0 x16 96:48:12 500 1242 1000 6 24 1536 24 DDR2 192 10 357.69 75 OEM only
GeForce GT 240 November 17, 2009 GT215 40 727 139 PCIe 2.0 x16 96:32:8 550 1340 1800
2000
3400(GDDR5) 		4.4 17.6 512
1024 		28.8(OEM)
32
54.4(GDDR5) 		DDR3
GDDR3
GDDR5 		128 10.1 385.9 69
GeForce GTS 240 Q4 2009 G92a
G92b 		65
55 		754 324
260 		PCIe 2.0 x16 112:56:16 675 1620 2200 10.8 37.8 1024 70.4 GDDR3 256 10.0 554.32 120 OEM only
GeForce GTS 250 Green 2009 G92b 65
55 		754 260 PCIe 2.0 x16 128:64:16 702 1512 2000 11.2 44.9 512
1024 		64.0 256 581 130
GeForce GTS 250 March 3, 2009 G92-428-B1 65
55 		754 260 PCIe 2.0 x16 128:64:16 738 1836 2000
2200 		11.808 47.232 512
1024 		64.0
70.4 		256 705.024 150 Some cards are rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce GTX 260 June 16, 2008 GT200-100-A2 65 1400 576 PCIe 2.0 x16 192:64:28 576 1242 1998 16.128 36.864 896 (1792)[4] 111.9 448 715.392 202 Replaced by GTX 260 Core 216
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 September 16, 2008 GT200-103-A2
GT200-105-B3 		65
55 		1400 576
470 		PCIe 2.0 x16 216:72:28 576 1242 1998 16.128 41.472 896 (1792) 111.9 448 804.816
874.8 		182
171
GeForce GTX 275 April 9, 2009 GT200-400-B3 55 1400 470 PCIe 2.0 x16 240:80:28 633 1404 2268 17.724 50.6 896 127.0 448 1010.880 219 Effectively one-half of the GTX 295
GeForce GTX 280 June 17, 2008 GT200-300-A2 65 1400 576 PCIe 2.0 x16 240:80:32 602 1296 2214 19.264 48.16 1024 (2048*) 141.7 512 933.120 236 MSI launched a 2GB version. Replaced by GTX 285
GeForce GTX 285 January 15, 2009 GT200-350-B3 55 1400 470 PCIe 2.0 x16 240:80:32 648 1476 2484 20.736 51.84 1024 (2048*) 159.0 512 1062.72 204 Palit, EVGA and BFG launched 2GB versions. EVGA GTX285 Classified can support 4-way SLI
GeForce GTX 295 January 8, 2009 2× GT200-400-B3 55 2× 1400 2× 470 PCIe 2.0 x16 2× 240:80:28 576 1242 1998 2× 16.128 2× 46.08 2× 896 2× 111.9 2× 448 1788.480 289 Dual PCB models were phased out in favor of a single PCB model with 2 GPUs
Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (Million) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config 1 Clock rate Fillrate Memory configuration API support (version) Processing Power GFLOPS TDP (watts) Comments
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) DRAM type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan

Features

Compute Capability: 1.1 (G92 [GTS250] GPU)
Compute Capability: 1.2 (GT215, GT216, GT218 GPUs)
Compute Capability: 1.3 has double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. (GT200a/b GPUs only)

Model Features
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) PureVideo 2 with VP2

Engine: (BSP and 240 AES)

PureVideo 4 with VP4 Engine
GeForce 210 No No Yes
GeForce GT 220
GeForce GT 240
GeForce GTS 250 Yes
3-Way (4-way for EVGA 285 Classified) 		Yes No
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (55 nm)
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 285
GeForce GTX 295 Yes

GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series

The GeForce 200M Series is a graphics processor architecture for notebooks.

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core config1 Clock speed Fillrate Memory API support (version) Processing Power (GFLOPS) TDP (watts) Notes
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan
GeForce G210M June 15, 2009 GT218 40 PCIe 2.0 x16 16:8:4 625 1500 1600 2.5 5 512 12.8 GDDR3 64 10.1 3.3 — 72 14 Lower clocked versions of the GT218 core is also known as Nvidia ION 2
GeForce GT 220M 2009 G96b 55 PCIe 2.0 x16 32:16:8 500 1250 1000
1600 		4 8 1024 16
25.6 		DDR2
GDDR3 		128 10.0 120 14 Rebranded 9600M GT @55 nm node shrink
GeForce GT 230M June 15, 2009 GT216 40 PCIe 2.0 x16 48:16:8 500 1100 1600 4 8 1024 25.6 GDDR3 128 10.1 158 23
GeForce GT 240M June 15, 2009 GT216 40 PCIe 2.0 x16 48:16:8 550 1210 1600 4.4 8.8 1024 25.6 GDDR3 128 174 23
GeForce GTS 250M June 15, 2009 GT215 40 PCIe 2.0 x16 96:32:8 500 1250 3200 4 16 1024 51.2 GDDR5 128 360 28
GeForce GTS 260M June 15, 2009 GT215 40 PCIe 2.0 x16 96:32:8 550 1375 3600 4.4 17.6 1024 57.6 GDDR5 128 396 38
GeForce GTX 260M March 3, 2009 G92b 55 PCIe 2.0 x16 112:56:16 550 1375 1900 8.8 30.8 1024 60.8 GDDR3 256 10.0 462 65
GeForce GTX 280M March 3, 2009 G92b 55 PCIe 2.0 x16 128:64:16 585 1463 1900 9.36 37.44 1024 60.8 GDDR3 256 562 75
GeForce GTX 285M February 2010 G92b 55 PCIe 2.0 x16 128:64:16 600 1500 2000 9.6 38.4 1024 64.0 GDDR3 256 576 75 Higher clocked version of GTX280M with improved memory
Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Bus interface Core config1 Clock speed Fillrate Memory API support (version) Processing Power (GFLOPS) TDP (watts) Notes
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL Vulkan

Discontinued support

A low-profile MSI GeForce 210

Nvidia ceased driver support for GeForce 200 series on April 1, 2016.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Smith, Ryan. "NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU". AnandTech. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ^ "NVIDIA Ampere Unleashed: NVIDIA Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, and Accelerator".
  3. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 Specs".
  4. ^ "Does the GTX260 (1.8GB version) have any direct competition?".
  5. ^ EOL driver support for legacy products

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