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GeForce GTX 10 series
The GTX 1070 Founders Edition reference card.
Release dateMay 2016
CodenameGP10x
ArchitecturePascal
ModelsGeForce GTX Series
Transistors
  • 3.3B 14 nm (GP107)
  • 4.4B 16 nm (GP106)
  • 7.2B 16 nm (GP104)
  • 12B 16 nm (GP102)
Cards
Entry-levelGeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Mid-rangeGeForce GTX 1060
High-endGeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1080
EnthusiastNVIDIA Titan X
API support
DirectXDirect3D 12.0 (feature level 12_1)
OpenCLOpenCL 1.2
OpenGLOpenGL 4.5
VulkanVulkan 1.0
SPIR-V
History
PredecessorGeForce 900 series

GeForce GTX 10 Series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia as a successor to the GeForce 900 Series. The Pascal microarchitecture is the successor to the Maxwell microarchitecture and incorporates TSMC's 16 nm FinFET technology. [1] It also incorporates Samsung's 14 nm FinFET technology for Nvidia's GP107 chips.[2]

Architecture

The microarchitecture of the GeForce 10 series is named Pascal, after the 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, and was presented on May 6, 2016.[3]

Nvidia has announced that the Pascal GP100 GPU will feature four High Bandwidth Memory stacks, allowing a total of 16 GB HBM2 on the highest-end models,[4] 16 nm technology,[1] Unified Memory and NVLink.[5]

New Features in GP10x:

  • CUDA Compute Capability 6.0 (GP100 only), 6.1 (GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107)
  • DisplayPort 1.4
  • HDMI 2.0b
  • Fourth generation Delta Color Compression
  • PureVideo Feature Set H hardware video decoding HEVC Main10 (10bit), Main12 (12bit) & VP9 hardware decoding (GM200 & GM204 did not support HEVC Main10/Main12 & VP9 hardware decoding)[6]
  • HDCP 2.2 support for 4K DRM protected content playback & streaming (Maxwell GM200 & GM204 lack HDCP 2.2 support, GM206 supports HDCP 2.2)[7]
  • NVENC HEVC Main10 10bit hardware encoding
  • GPU Boost 3.0
  • Simultaneous Multi-Projection
  • HB SLI Bridge Technology
  • New memory controller with GDDR5X & GDDR5 support (GP102, GP104) [8]
  • Dynamic load balancing scheduling system.[9] This allows the scheduler to dynamically adjust the amount of the GPU assigned to multiple tasks, ensuring that the GPU remains saturated with work except when there is no more work that can safely be distributed.[9] [9]
  • Instruction-level preemption.[10] In graphics tasks, the driver restricts this to pixel-level preemption because pixel tasks typically finish quickly and the overhead costs of doing pixel-level preemption are much lower than performing instruction-level preemption.[10] Compute tasks get either thread-level or instruction-level preemption.[10] Instruction-level preemption is useful because compute tasks can take long times to finish and there are no guarantees on when a compute task finishes, so the driver enables the very expensive instruction-level preemption for these tasks.[10]
  • Triple buffering implemented in the driver level.[11] Nvidia calls this "Fast Sync".[11] This has the GPU maintain three frame buffers per monitor.[11] This results in the GPU continuously rendering frames, and the most recently completely rendered frame is sent to a monitor each time it needs one.[11] This removes the initial delay that double buffering with vsync causes and disallows tearing.[11] The costs are that more memory is consumed for the buffers and that the GPU will consume power drawing frames that might be wasted because two or more frames could possibly be drawn between the time a monitor is sent a frame and the time the same monitor needs to be sent another frame.[11] In this case, the latest frame is picked, causing frames drawn after the previously displayed frame but before the frame that is picked to be completely wasted.[11] This feature has been backported to Maxwell-based GPUs in driver version 372.70.[12]

Successor architecture

Volta

After Pascal, the next architecture will be codenamed Volta, after the 18th century Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. Volta was to be the direct successor to Maxwell but in 2014 Nvidia announced that Pascal was following Maxwell "to take advantage of stacked memory and other innovations sooner."[13]

Products

Founders Edition

Announcing the GeForce 10-series products, Nvidia has introduced Founders Edition graphics cards versions both of GTX 1070 and 1080. These are what was previously known as reference cards, that is which were designed and built by Nvidia and not by its authorized board partners. The Founders Edition cards have a die cast machine-finished aluminum body with a single radial fan and a vapor chamber cooling (GTX 1080 only[14]), an upgraded power supply and a new low profile backplate.[15] Nvidia also released a limited supply of Founders Edition cards for the GTX 1060 that were only available directly from Nvidia's website.[16] Founders Edition cards prices are greater than MSRP of partners cards, however some partners' cards, incorporating a complex design, with liquid or hybrid cooling may cost even more than Founders Edition.

GeForce 10 (10xx) series

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (billion) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config[a] Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (GFLOPS)[b] TDP (watts) SLI HB support[c] Release price (USD)
Base core clock (MHz) Boost core clock (MHz) Memory (MT/s) Pixel (GP/s)[d] Texture (GT/s)[e] Size (GiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) Single precision (Boost) Double precision (Boost) Half precision (boost)[18] MSRP Founders Edition
GeForce GTX 1050[19] October 25, 2016 GP107-300 14 3.3 135 PCIe 3.0 x16 640:40:32 1354 1455 7000 43.3 54.2 2 112 GDDR5 128 1733 (1862) 54 (58) 27 (29) 75 No $109 —
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti[19] GP107-400 768:48:32 1290 1392 41.3 61.9 4 1981 (2138) 62 (67) 31 (33) $139
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB[20] August 18, 2016 GP106-300 16 4.4 200 1152:72:48 1506 1708 8000 72.3 108.4 3 192 192 3470 (3935) 108 (123) 54 (61) 120 $199
GeForce GTX 1060 6GB[20] July 19, 2016 GP106-400 1280:80:48 120.5 6 3855 (4372) 120 (137) 60 (68) $249 $299
GeForce GTX 1070[21] June 10, 2016 GP104-200 7.2 314 1920:120:64 1683 96.4[f][22] 180.7 8 256 256 5783 (6463) 181 (202) 90 (101) 150 2-way SLI HB[23] or traditional 2/3/4-way SLI[24] $379 $449
GeForce GTX 1080[17] May 27, 2016 GP104-400 2560:160:64 1607 1733 10000 102.8 257.1 320 GDDR5X 8228 (8873) 257 (277) 128 (139) 180 $599 $699
NVIDIA TITAN X[25] August 2, 2016 GP102-400 12 471[26] 3584:224:96 1417 1531 136 317.4 12 480 384 10157 (10974) 317 (343) 159 (171) 250 — $1200
  1. ^ Shader Processors : Texture mapping units : Render output units
  2. ^ For calculating the processing power see Pascal (microarchitecture)#Performance.
  3. ^ SLI HB only supports a maximum of 2-way SLI using SLI HB bridges, however if using traditional SLI bridges it can support a maximum of 4-way SLI but the performance mostly improve in synthetic benchmarks only.
  4. ^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the lowest of three numbers: number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed, number of rasterizers multiplied by the number of fragments they can generate per rasterizer multiplied by the base core clock speed, and the number of streaming multiprocessors multiplied by the number of fragments per clock that they can output multiplied by the base clock rate.
  5. ^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
  6. ^ The GTX 1070 has one of the four GPCs disabled in the die. Losing one of the Raster Engines only allows for the use of 48 ROPs per cycle.

GeForce 10 (10xx) series for notebooks

The biggest highlight to this line of notebook GPUs is the implementation of configured specifications close to (for the GTX 1060-1080) and exceeding (for the GTX1050/1050Ti) that of their desktop counterparts, as opposed to having "cut-down" specifications in previous generations. As a result, the "M" suffix is completely removed from the model's naming schemes, denoting these notebook GPUs to possess similar performance to those made for desktop PCs, including the ability to overclock their core frequencies by the user, something not possible with previous generations of notebook GPUs. This was made possible having lower TDP ratings as compared to their desktop equivalents, making these desktop-level GPUs thermally feasible to be implemented into a notebook chassis with better thermal dissipation solutions.

Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (billion) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config Clock speeds Fillrate Memory API support (version) Processing power (GFLOPS) TDP (watts) SLI support
Base core clock (MHz) Boost core clock (MHz) Memory (MT/s) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (GiB) Bandwidth (GB/s) Bus type Bus width (bit) DirectX OpenGL OpenCL Vulkan Single precision (Boost) Double precision Half precision
GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)[27] January 3, 2017 GP107 14 3.3 135 PCIe 3.0 x16 640:40:16 1354 1493 7000 43.3 54.2 Up to 4 112 GDDR5 128 12.0 (12_1) 4.5 1.2 1.0 1733 (1911) 27 14 75 No
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Notebook)[27] 768:48:32 1493 1620 47.8 71.7 2293 (2488) 36 18
GeForce GTX 1060 (Notebook)[27] August 16, 2016 GP106 16 4.4 200 1280:80:48 1404 1670 8000 67.4 112 Up to 6 192 192 3594 (4275) 112 56 80
GeForce GTX 1070 (Notebook)[27] GP104 7.2 314 2048:128:64 1442 1645 92.3 185 8 256 256 5906 (6738) 185 92 110 Yes
GeForce GTX 1080 (Notebook)[27] 2560:160:64 1556 1733 10000 99.6 249 320 GDDR5X 7967 (8873) 249 124 150

Chipset table

Main article: Comparison table of GeForce 10 Series

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Samsung to Optical-Shrink NVIDIA "Pascal" to 14 nm". Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "NVIDIA Updates GPU Roadmap; Announces Pascal". The Official NVIDIA Blog.
  4. ^ Harris, Mark (April 5, 2016). "Inside Pascal: NVIDIA's Newest Computing Platform". Parallel Forall. Nvidia. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
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  7. ^ "Nvidia Pascal HDCP 2.2". Nvidia Hardware Page. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
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  14. ^ Hruska, Joel (May 31, 2016). "Nvidia's new GTX 1070 freezes out Fury, trashes Titan X". ExtremeTech. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
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  20. ^ a b Nvidia. "GTX 1060 Graphics Card". Retrieved August 18, 2016.
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  25. ^ Nvidia. "NVIDIA TITAN X Graphics Card with Pascal". Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  26. ^ Smith, Ryan. "Updated: NVIDIA Announces "NVIDIA Titan X" Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd". AnandTech. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  27. ^ a b c d e "GeForce GTX 10-Series Notebooks". geforce.com.
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