The GeForce 200 series is a series of Tesla-based

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s developed by

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Architecture

The GeForce 200 Series introduced Nvidia's second generation of

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, 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

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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

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support for use in

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

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-logic chip that has been fabricated at the TSMC foundry. The

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have since superseded the GT200 chips in transistor count, but the original GT200 dies still exceed the GF100 die size.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

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-based GK210 GPU used in the Tesla K80, which has 7.1 billion transistors on a 561 mm² die manufactured in

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. The Ampere GA100 is currently the largest commercial GPU ever fabricated at 826 mm² with 54.2 billion transistors. 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 8 channel

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output through

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Chipset table

GeForce 200 Series

All models support Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing, Angle-Independent Anisotropic Filtering, 240-bit OpenEXR HDR. * ¹ Unified Shaders :

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s :

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Features

Compute Capability: 1.1 (G92 TS250GPU)
Compute Capability: 1.2 (GT215, GT216, GT218 GPUs)
Compute Capability: 1.3 has

support for use in

applications. (GT200a/b GPUs only)

GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series

The GeForce 200M Series is a graphics processor architecture for notebooks. *¹ Unified Shaders :

s :

Discontinued support

NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce 200 series on April 1, 2016.EOL driver support for legacy products
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* Linux, 64-bit: version 340.108 released on December 23, 2019
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References

External links

GeForce GTX 295

Geforce gtx 295

Nvidia Nsight
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