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The GeForce 200 Series is the 10th generation of Nvidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

's GeForce

GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units designed by Nvidia. , there have been eleven iterations of the design. The first GeForce products were discrete GPUs designed for use on add-on graphics boards, intended for the high-margin PC gaming market...

graphics processing unit

Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit or GPU is a specialized circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display...

s. The series also represents the continuation of the company's unified shader architecture introduced with the GeForce 8 Series

GeForce 8 Series

The GeForce 8 Series, is the eighth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce line of graphics processing units. The third major GPU architecture developed at NVIDIA, the GeForce 8 represents the company's first unified shader architecture.-Naming:...

and the GeForce 9 Series

GeForce 9 Series

The GeForce 9 Series is the ninth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce series of graphics processing units, the first of which was released on February 21, 2008.-Geforce 9300GE :*65nm G98 GPU*PCI-E x16*64 Bit Bus Width*4 ROP, 8 Unified Shaders...

. Its primary competition came from ATI

Ati

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's Radeon

Radeon

Radeon is a brand of graphics processing units and random access memory produced by Advanced Micro Devices , first launched in 2000 by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006. Radeon is the successor to the Rage line. There are four different groups, which can be differentiated by...

HD 4000 series

Radeon R700

The Radeon R700 is the engineering codename for a graphics processing unit series developed by Advanced Micro Devices under the ATI brand name. The foundation chip, codenamed RV770, was announced and demonstrated on June 16, 2008 as part of the FireStream 9250 and Cinema 2.0 initiative launch media...

.

The GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 are based on the same processor core. During the manufacturing process, GTX chips are 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, in order to create more parity between the GTX 260 and the competing HD 4870, Nvidia re-released the GTX 260 with 216 stream processors, up from 192. Effectively, there are 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

GPGPU

General-purpose computing on graphics processing units is the technique of using a GPU, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU...

applications. GT200 GPUs also have improved performance in geometry shading.

, the GT200 is the largest commercial GPU ever constructed. It consists of 1.4 billion transistors covering a 576 mm² die surface area built on a 55 nm process. To date, the GT200 is the largest CMOS

CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits...

-logic chip that has been fabricated at the TSMC foundry

TSMC

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited or TSMC is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan.-Overview:...

. The GeForce 400 Series

GeForce 400 Series

The GeForce 400 Series is the 11th generation of Nvidia's GeForce graphics processing units. The series was originally slated for production in November 2009, but, after a number of delays, launched on March 26, 2010 with availability following in April 2010....

have since superseded the GT200 chips in transistor count, but the original GT200 dies still exceed the GF100 die size.

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

Nvidia PureVideo

Nvidia PureVideo is a hardware feature designed to offload video decoding processes and video post-processing from a computer's CPU hardware to Nvidia's GPU hardware series GeForce 6 and later, GeForce M series ; and Nvidia Quadro series...

HD VP4 decoder hardware in them, 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 8 channel LPCM output through HDMI.

Products

¹ Unified Shaders
Unified shader model
Unified Shader Model term is used to describe two similar but separate concepts: Unified Shading Architecture and Unified Shader Model.- Unified Shader Model :...

(Vertex shader / Geometry shader / Pixel shader) : Texture mapping unit
Texture mapping unit
A texture mapping unit is a component in modern graphics processing units , historically it is a separate physical processor. A TMU is able to rotate and resize a bitmap to be placed onto an arbitrary plane of a given 3D object as a texture...

: Render Output unit
Render Output unit
The Render Output Unit, often abbreviated as "ROP", and sometimes called Raster Operations Pipeline, is one of the final steps in the rendering process of modern 3D accelerator boards. The pixel pipelines take pixel and texel information and process it, via specific matrix and vector operations,...
² The theoretical shader performance in single-precision floating point operations [FLOPS_sp, GFLOPS
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...

] of the graphics card with shader count [n] and shader frequency [f, GHz], is estimated by the following: FLOPS_sp ≈ f × n × 3.
³ This table does not include OEM video cards that are only included in prebuilt PCs, such as the GTS 240, which are technically part of the GeForce 200 family.

Model	Year Year A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic....	Code name Code name A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage...	Fab (nm)	Transistors (billion)	Die size (mm²)	Bus Computer bus In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.Early computer buses were literally parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same... interface	Memory min (MiB Mebibyte The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major... )	Config core ¹	Reference clock rate			Fillrate Fillrate The term fillrate usually refers to the number of pixels a video card can render and write to video memory in a second. In this case, fillrates are given in megapixels per second or in gigapixels per second , and they are obtained by multiplying the number of raster operations by the clock...		Reference memory configuration			Graphics library support (version)		GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (watts)	Prices (as of Q4 2009)
Model			Fab (nm)	Transistors (billion)	Die size (mm²)			Config core ¹	Core (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Shader (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Memory (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Pixel (GP Pixel In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled.... /s)	Texture (GT Texel (graphics) A texel, or texture element is the fundamental unit of texture space, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels.... /s)	Bandwidth (GiB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... /s)	DRAM type	Bus width (bit Bit A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications; it is the amount of information stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in one of two possible distinct states... )	Direct3D Direct3D Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface . Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems , and for other platforms through the open source software Wine. It is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems...	OpenGL OpenGL OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...	GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (watts)	Prices (as of Q4 2009)
GeForce 210	October 12, 2009	GT218	40	0.260	57	PCIe x16 2.0	1724	16:8:4	589	1402	1000	4.1	4.712	8	DDR2 DDR3	64	10.1	3.3	69	30	$50 USD
GeForce GT 220	October 12, 2009	GT216	40	0.486	100	PCIe x16 2.0	512/1024	48:16:8	625	1360	1580	5	10	25.3	DDR2 DDR3	128	10.1	3.3	192	58	$70 USD
GeForce GT 240	November 17, 2009	GT215	40	0.727	139	PCIe x16 2.0	512/1024	96:32:8	550	1340	1800 2000 3400	8.8	17.6	28.8 32 54.4	DDR3 GDDR3 GDDR5	128	10.1	3.3	385	69	$99 USD
GeForce GTS 250	March 3, 2009	G92b	55	0.754	230	PCIe x16 2.0	512 1024	128:64:16	738	1836	2200	11.808	47.232	70.4	GDDR3	256	10.0	3.3	705	150	$140 USD
GeForce GTX 260	June 26, 2008	GT200	65	1.4	576	PCIe x16 2.0	896/1792	192:64:28	576	1242	1998	16.128	36.864	111.9	GDDR3	448 32x14	10.0	3.3	715	182	$214 USD
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216	September 16, 2008	GT200	65	1.4	576	PCIe x16 2.0	896/1792	216:72:28	576	1242	1998	16.128	41.472	111.9	GDDR3	448 32x14	10.0	3.3	805	182	$150 USD
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216	July 16, 2009	GT200b	55	1.4	487	PCIe x16 2.0	896/1792	216:72:28	576	1242	1998	17.5	40.0	111.9	GDDR3	448 32x14	10.0	3.3	874.8	171	$150 USD
GeForce GTX 275	April 2, 2009	GT200b	55	1.4	470	PCIe x16 2.0	896/1792	240:80:28	633	1404	2268	17.724	40.5	127.0	GDDR3	448 32x14	10.0	3.3	1010.88	219	$210 USD
GeForce GTX 280	June 17, 2008	GT200	65	1.4	576	PCIe x16 2.0	1024	240:80:32	602	1296	2214	19.264	48.16	141.7	GDDR3	512 32x16	10.0	3.3	933	236	$320 USD
GeForce GTX 285	January 15, 2009	GT200b	55	1.4	470	PCIe x16 2.0	1024/2048	240:80:32	648	1476	2484 (2322 2GB version)	20.736	51.8	159.0 (148.6 2GB version)	GDDR3	512 32x16	10.0	3.3	1062.72	204	$340 USD
GeForce GTX 295	January 8, 2009	GT200b	55	2x 1.4	2x 470	PCIe x16 2.0	2x 896	2x 240:80:28	576	1242	1998	2x 16.128	2x 46.08	2x 111.9	GDDR3	2x 448 32x14	10.0	3.3	1788.48	289	$470 USD

The GTS 250 is basically a 55nm G92b based 9800 GTX+ GPU on a new P361 PCB and internally Nvidia calls it D10P2. The differences are mainly on the power design; the core and memory speeds are identical to the 9800 GTX+ but power consumption has been lowered. However, not all GTS 250's have these improvements. Some of the earlier GTS 250's were merely rebadged 9800 GTX+ video cards. All of the GTX 200 series cards and 40nm GeForce 210, GeForce GT 220 & GeForce GT 240 support OpenGL 3.3. There is also a version of the GTS250 with the G92b core called the "green" edition, marketed as such because of low-power consumption and reduced core and memory clocks. Another version of the GTS 250 was released by Gigabyte Technology

Gigabyte Technology

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products best known for its motherboards. The company is publicly held and traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange .-Company:...

, with a slightly altered chip layout and an attached Zalman fan.

Nvidia released a single PCB version of the GTX 295 graphics card with performance specifications identical to the dual PCB version. Improvements however, are slightly better power consumption, better thermal performance as well as cheaper manufacturing costs. The card allows Quad-SLI and is able to connect to both single and dual PCB versions of the GTX 295.

OEM GeForce 200

A second wave of OEM cards for pre-built systems has been released by Nvidia and is currently listed on the Nvidia website. Current cards include the G210, GT 220, and the GTS 240. The G210 & GT 220 are 40nm GT218 & GT216 GPUs with DirectX 10.1 support.

Model	Year Year A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic....	Code name Code name A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage...	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Billion)	Die Size (mm ²)	Bus Computer bus In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.Early computer buses were literally parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same... interface	Memory min (MiB Mebibyte The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major... )	Config core ¹	Reference clock rate			Fillrate Fillrate The term fillrate usually refers to the number of pixels a video card can render and write to video memory in a second. In this case, fillrates are given in megapixels per second or in gigapixels per second , and they are obtained by multiplying the number of raster operations by the clock...		Reference Memory Configuration			Graphics library support (version		GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Prices (As of Oct 2009)
Model			Fab (nm)	Transistors (Billion)	Die Size (mm ²)			Config core ¹	Core (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Shader (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Memory (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Pixel (GP Pixel In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled.... /s)	Texture (GT Texel (graphics) A texel, or texture element is the fundamental unit of texture space, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels.... /s)	Bandwidth (GiB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... /s)	DRAM type	Bus width (bit Bit A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications; it is the amount of information stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in one of two possible distinct states... )	Direct3D Direct3D Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface . Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems , and for other platforms through the open source software Wine. It is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems...	OpenGL OpenGL OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...	GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Prices (As of Oct 2009)
GeForce G210	July 10, 2009	GT218	40	0.260	57	PCIe 2.0 x16	512	16:8:4	589	1402	500	?	?	8	DDR2	64	10.1	3.3	69	30	OEM
GeForce GT 220	July 10, 2009	GT216	40	0.486	100	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	48:16:8	615	1335	790	?	?	25	GDDR3	128	10.1	3.3	192	58	OEM
GeForce GTS 240	July 24, 2009	G92b	55	0.754	230	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	112:56:16	675	1620	1100	10.8	37.8	70.4	GDDR3	256	10.0	3.3	544	140	OEM

GeForce 200M (2xxM) series

The GeForce 200M series was made for notebook architecture.

¹ Unified Shaders

Unified shader model

Unified Shader Model term is used to describe two similar but separate concepts: Unified Shading Architecture and Unified Shader Model.- Unified Shader Model :...

(Vertex shader/Geometry shader/Pixel shader) : Texture mapping unit

Texture mapping unit

A texture mapping unit is a component in modern graphics processing units , historically it is a separate physical processor. A TMU is able to rotate and resize a bitmap to be placed onto an arbitrary plane of a given 3D object as a texture...

: Render Output unit

Render Output unit

The Render Output Unit, often abbreviated as "ROP", and sometimes called Raster Operations Pipeline, is one of the final steps in the rendering process of modern 3D accelerator boards. The pixel pipelines take pixel and texel information and process it, via specific matrix and vector operations,...

Model	Year Year A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic....	Code name Code name A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage...	Fab (nm)	Bus Computer bus In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.Early computer buses were literally parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same... interface	Memory max (MiB Mebibyte The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major... )	Clock speed			Config core¹	Fillrate Fillrate The term fillrate usually refers to the number of pixels a video card can render and write to video memory in a second. In this case, fillrates are given in megapixels per second or in gigapixels per second , and they are obtained by multiplying the number of raster operations by the clock... max (GT Texel (graphics) A texel, or texture element is the fundamental unit of texture space, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels.... /s)	Memory			Graphics library support (version)		GFLOPs (MADD/MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Features
Model			Fab (nm)			Core (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Shader (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Memory (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Config core¹		Bandwidth max (GB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... /s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit Bit A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications; it is the amount of information stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in one of two possible distinct states... )	DirectX DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...	OpenGL OpenGL OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...	GFLOPs (MADD/MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Features
GeForce G210M	June 15, 2009	GT218	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	512	625	1500	1600	16:8:4	?	12.8	GDDR3	64	10.1	3.3	72	14
GeForce GT 220M	2009?	G96M	65	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	500	1250	800	?	?	??	GDDR3	128	10.0	3.3	?	23
GeForce GT 230M	June 15, 2009	GT216	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	500	1100	1600	48:16:8	?	25.6	GDDR3	128	10.1	3.3	158	23
GeForce GT 240M	June 15, 2009	GT216	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	550	1210	1600	48:16:8	?	25.6	GDDR3	128	10.1	3.3	174	23
GeForce GTS 250M	June 15, 2009	GT215	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	500	1250	3200	96:32:8	?	51.2	GDDR5	128	10.1	3.3	360	28
GeForce GTS 260M	June 15, 2009	GT215	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	550	1375	3600	96:32:8	?	57.6	GDDR5	128	10.1	3.3	396	38
GeForce GTX 260M	March 3, 2009	G92b	55	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	550	1375	1900	112:56:16	30.8	60.8	GDDR3	256	10.0	3.3	462	65
GeForce GTX 280M	March 3, 2009	G92b	55	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	585	1463	1900	128:64:16	37.44	60.8	GDDR3	256	10.0	3.3	562	75
GeForce GTX 285M	January 29, 2010	G92b	55	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	600	1500	2000	128:64:16	38.4	64.0	GDDR3	256	10.0	3.3	576

The GeForce GT 220M is basically a rebadged GeForce 9600M GT, and the GTX 260M, GTX 280M and GTX 285M all use the previous generation's G92b core.

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OEM GeForce 200

GeForce 200M (2xxM) series

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