GeForce 500 series

GeForce 500 Series
Release date	8 November 2010
Codename	GF106, GF108, GF110, GF114, GF116, GF119
Models	GeForce Series GeForce GT Series; GeForce GTX Series;
Transistors	292M 40 nm (GF119) 585M 40 nm (GF108); 1,170M 40 nm (GF116); 1,950M 40 nm (GF114); 3,000M 40 nm (GF110);
Cards
Entry-level	510, GT 520, GT 530
Mid-range	GT 545, GTX 550 Ti, GTX 560, GTX 560 Ti
High-end	GTX 570, GTX 580, GTX 590
API support
DirectX	Direct3D 11.0
OpenCL	OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL	OpenGL 4.5
History
Predecessor	GeForce 400 Series
Successor	GeForce 600 Series

The GeForce 500 Series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, based on a refresh of the Fermi (microarchitecture) (GF-codenamed chips) used in the previous 400 series. Nvidia officially announced the GeForce 500 series on 9 November 2010 with the launch of the GeForce GTX 580.

Overview

The Nvidia Geforce 500 Series graphics cards are significantly modified versions of the Nvidia GeForce 400 Series graphics cards, in terms of performance and power management. Like the Nvidia GeForce 400 Series graphics cards, the Nvidia Geforce 500 Series graphics cards support DirectX 11.0, OpenGL 4.5, and OpenCL 1.1. This series supports DirectX 12, but cannot support all features of Direct3D 12.^[1]

The refreshed Fermi chip is large: it includes 512 stream processors, grouped in 16 stream multiprocessors clusters (each with 32 CUDA cores), and is manufactured by TSMC in a 40 nm process.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 graphics card is the first in the Nvidia GeForce 500 Series to use a fully enabled chip based on the refreshed Fermi architecture, with all 16 stream multiprocessors clusters and all six 64-bit memory controllers active. The new GF110 GPU was enhanced with full speed FP16 filtering (the previous generation GF100 GPU could only do half-speed FP16 filtering) and improved z-culling units.

On 25 January 2011, Nvidia launched the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, to target the "sweet spot" segment where price/performance ratio is considered important. With its more than 30% improvement over the GTX 460, and performance in between the Radeon HD 6870 and 6950 1GB, the GTX 560 Ti directly replaced the GeForce GTX 470.

On 17 February 2011, it was reported that the GeForce GTX 550 Ti would be launching on 15 March 2011. Although the GTX 550 Ti is a GF116 mainstream chip, Nvidia chose to name its new card the GTX 550 Ti, and not the GTS 550. Performance was shown to be at least comparable and up to 12% faster than the current Radeon HD 5770. Price-wise, the new card trod into the range occupied by the GeForce GTX 460 (768 MB) and the Radeon HD 6790.^[2]

On 24 March 2011, the GTX 590 was launched as the flagship graphics card for Nvidia. The GTX 590 is a dual-GPU card, similar to past releases such as the GTX 295, and boasted the potential to handle Nvidia's 3D Vision technology by itself.

On 13 April 2011, the GT 520 was launched as the bottom-end card in the range, with lower performance than the equivalent number cards in the two previous generations, the GT 220 and the GT 420.^{[citation needed]} However, it supported DirectX 11 and was more powerful than the GeForce 210, the GeForce 310, and the integrated graphics options on Intel CPUs.

On 17 May 2011, Nvidia launched a less expensive (non-Ti) version of the GeForce GTX 560 to strengthen Nvidia's price-performance in the $200 range. Like the faster GTX 560 Ti that came before it, this video card was also faster than the GeForce GTX 460. Standard versions of this card performed comparably to the AMD Radeon HD 6870, and would eventually replace the GeForce GTX 460. Premium versions of this card operate at higher speed (factory overclocked), and are slightly faster than the Radeon 6870, approaching the performance of basic versions of the Radeon HD 6950 and the GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

On 28 November 2011, Nvidia launched the "GTX560Ti With 448 Cores".^[3] However, it does not use the silicon of the GTX560 series: it is a GF110 chip with two shader blocks disabled. The most powerful version of the 560 series, this card was widely known to be a "limited production" card and was used as a marketing tool making use of the popularity of the GTX560 brand for the 2011 Holiday season. The performance of the card resides between the regular 560Ti and 570.

Products

GeForce 500 (5xx) series

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units
² Each Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) in the GPU of GF110 architecture contains 32 SPs and 4 SFUs. Each Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) in the GPU of GF114/116/118 architecture contains 48 SPs and 8 SFUs. Each SP can fulfil up to two single precision operations FMA per clock. Each SFU can fulfil up to four operations SF per clock. The approximate ratio of operations FMA to operations SF is equal 4:1. The theoretical shader performance in single-precision floating point operations (FMA)[FLOPS_sp, GFLOPS] of the graphics card with shader count [n] and shader frequency [f, GHz], is estimated by the following: FLOPS_sp ˜ f × n × 2. Alternative formula: FLOPS _sp ˜ f × m × (32 SPs × 2(FMA)). [m] - SM count. Total Processing Power: FLOPS_sp ˜ f × m × (32 SPs × 2(FMA) + 4 × 4 SFUs) or FLOPS_sp ˜ f × n × 2.5.
³ Each SM in the GF110 contains 4 texture filtering units for every texture address unit. The complete GF110 die contains 64 texture address units and 256 texture filtering units.^[4] Each SM in the GF114/116/118 architecture contains 8 texture filtering units for every texture address unit but has doubled both addressing and filtering units.

All products are produced using a 40 nm fabrication process. All products support Direct X 11.0, OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.1.

Model	Launch	Code name	Transistors (Million)	Die size (mm²)	Bus interface	SM count	Core config^1,3	Clock rate			Fillrate		Memory Configuration				Compute capability	GFLOPs (FMA)²	TDP (watts)	Release Price
Model	Launch	Code name	Transistors (Million)	Die size (mm²)	Bus interface	SM count	Core config^1,3	Core (MHz)	Shader (MHz)	Memory (MHz)	Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	DRAM type	Bus width (bit)	Compute capability	GFLOPs (FMA)²	TDP (watts)	USD	GBP
GeForce 510	?	GF119	?	79	PCIe 2.0 x16	1	48:8:4	523	1046	1796	2.09	4.18	1024 2048	14.0	DDR3	64	2.1	100.4	25	OEM	OEM
GeForce GT 520	12 April 2011	GF119	?	79	PCIe 2.0 x16	1	48:8:4	810	1620	1800	3.24	6.5	1024 2048	14.1	DDR3	64	2.1	155.5	29	$59	£45
GeForce GT 530	14 May 2011	GF108	585	116	PCIe 2.0 x16	2	96:16:8	700	1400	1800	5.6	11.2	1024 2048	28.8	DDR3	128	2.1	268.8	50	OEM	OEM
GeForce GT 545 DDR3	14 May 2011	GF116	1170	238	PCIe 2.0 x16	3	144:24:24	720	1440	1800	17.28	17.28	1536 3072	43	DDR3	192	2.1	417.7	70	$109	?
GeForce GT 545 GDDR5	14 May 2011	GF116	1170	238	PCIe 2.0 x16	3	144:24:16	870	1740	3996	13.92	20.88	1024	62.4	GDDR5	128	2.1	501.1	105	OEM	OEM
GeForce GTX 550 Ti	15 March 2011	GF116	1170	238	PCIe 2.0 x16	4	192:32:24	900	1800	4104	21.6	28.8	1024 2048	98.5	GDDR5	192	2.1	691.2	116	$149	?
GeForce GTX 555	14 May 2011	GF114	1950	332	PCIe 2.0 x16	6	288:48:24	736	1472	3828	8.8	35.3	1024	91.9	GDDR5	192	2.1	847.9	150	OEM	OEM
GeForce GTX 560 SE	March 2012	GF114	1950	360	PCIe 2.0 x16	6	288:48:24	736	1472	3828	17.7	35.3	1024	92	GDDR5	192	2.1	847.9	150	?	£100
GeForce GTX 560	17 May 2011	GF114	1950	360	PCIe 2.0 x16	7	336:56:32	810-950	1620-1900	4004-4488	25.9	45.4-49.8	1024 2048^[5]	128	GDDR5	256	2.1	1088.6-1276.8 1075^[6]	150	$199	?
GeForce GTX 560 Ti	25 January 2011	GF114	1950	360	PCIe 2.0 x16	8	384:64:32	822	1645	4008	26.3	52.61	1024 2048	128.27	GDDR5	256	2.1	1263.4	170	$249	?
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core	28 November 2011	GF110	3000	520	PCIe 2.0 x16	14	448:56:40	732	1464	3800	29.28	41	1280	152	GDDR5	320	2.0	1311.7	210	$289	£239.99
GeForce GTX 570	7 December 2010	GF110	3000	520	PCIe 2.0 x16	15	480:60:40	732	1464	3800	29.28	43.92	1280 2560	152	GDDR5	320	2.0	1405.4	219	$349	?
GeForce GTX 580	9 November 2010	GF110	3000^[7]	520^[7]	PCIe 2.0 x16	16	512:64:48	772	1544	4008	37.06	49.41	1536 3072	192.4	GDDR5	384	2.0	1581.1	244^[8]	$499	£399
GeForce GTX 590	24 March 2011	2× GF110	2× 3000	2× 520	PCIe 2.0 x16	32^[9]	1024:128:96^[10]	607	1215	3414^[10]	58.75^[10]	77.7	2× 1536^[9]	327.7	GDDR5	2x384	2.0	2488.3	365	$699	£570^[9]

GeForce 500M (5xxM) series

The GeForce 500M series for notebook architecture.

¹ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units

Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Bus interface	Core config¹	Clock speed			Fillrate		Memory				API support (version)		Processing Power² (GFLOPS)	TDP (watts)	Notes
Model	Launch	Code name	Fab (nm)	Bus interface	Core config¹	Core (MHz)	Shader (MHz)	Memory (MHz)	Pixel (GP/s)	Texture (GT/s)	Size (MiB)	Bandwidth (GB/s)	Bus type	Bus width (bit)	DirectX	OpenGL	Processing Power² (GFLOPS)	TDP (watts)	Notes
GeForce GT 520M	5 January 2011	GF119	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	48:8:4	740	1480	1600	2.96	5.92	1024	12.8	DDR3	64	11.0	4.5	142.08	12
GeForce GT 520M		GF108	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	96:16:4	515	1030	1600	2.06	8.24	1024	12.8	DDR3	64	11.0	4.5	197.76	20	Noticed in Lenovo laptops
GeForce GT 520MX	30 May 2011	GF119	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	48:8:4	900	1800	1800	3.6	7.2	1024	14.4	DDR3	64	11.0	4.5	172.8	20
GeForce GT 525M	5 January 2011	GF108	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	96:16:4	600	1200	1800	2.4	9.6	1024	28.8	DDR3	128	11.0	4.5	230.4	20-23
GeForce GT 540M	5 January 2011	GF108	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	96:16:4	672	1344	1800	2.688	10.752	1024	28.8	DDR3	128	11.0	4.5	258.048	32-35
GeForce GT 550M	5 January 2011	GF108	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	96:16:4	740	1480	1800	2.96	11.84	1024	28.8	DDR3	128	11.0	4.5	284.16	32-35
GeForce GT 555M	5 January 2011	GF106 GF108	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	144:24:24 144:24:16 96:16:4	590 650 753	1180 1300 1506	1800 1800 3138	14.6 10.4 3	14.6 15.6 12	1536 2048 1024	43.2 28.8 50.2	DDR3 DDR3 GDDR5	192 128 128	11.0	4.5	339.84 374.4 289.15	30-35
GeForce GTX 560M	30 May 2011	GF116	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	192:32:16 192:32:24	775	1550	2500	18.6	24.8	2048 1536, 3072	40.0 60.0	GDDR5	128 192	11.0	4.5	595.2	75
GeForce GTX 570M^[11]	28 June 2011	GF114	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	336:56:24	575	1150	3000	13.8	32.2	1536	72.0	GDDR5	192	11.0	4.5	772.8	75
GeForce GTX 580M	28 June 2011	GF114	40	PCIe 2.0 x16	384:64:32	620	1240	3000	19.8	39.7	2048	96.0	GDDR5	256	11.0	4.5	952.3	100

Chipset table

Notes

David Kanter (30 September 2009). "Inside Fermi: Nvidia's HPC Push". realworldtech.com. Retrieved 16 December 2010.

References

^ Kowaliski, Cyril (21 March 2014). "DirectX 12 will also add new features for next-gen GPUs". The Tech Report. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
^ "GeForce GTX 550 Ti To Launch On 15 March".
^ "GeForce GTX560Ti With 448 cores review".
^ Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
^ "Gainward GeForce® GTX 560 2048MB".
^ Tarinder Sandhu (19 May 2011). "ASUS (NVIDIA) GeForce GTX 560 graphics-card review".
^ ^a ^b Ryan Smith (9 November 2010). "Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined".
^ Techpowerup Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1536 MB
^ ^a ^b ^c "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Details Leaked!". 21 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "GeForce GTX 590 3GB Specifications". 24 March 2011.
^ http://www.geforce.com/#/Hardware/GPUs/geforce-gtx-570m/specifications

External links

[CyrliKowaliski-1] Kowaliski, Cyril (21 March 2014). "DirectX 12 will also add new features for next-gen GPUs". The Tech Report. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

[2] "GeForce GTX 550 Ti To Launch On 15 March".

[3] "GeForce GTX560Ti With 448 cores review".

[4] Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined

[GTX560-gainward-5] "Gainward GeForce® GTX 560 2048MB".

[GTX580-anandtech-6] Tarinder Sandhu (19 May 2011). "ASUS (NVIDIA) GeForce GTX 560 graphics-card review".

[GTX580-anandtech2-7] Ryan Smith (9 November 2010). "Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined".

[8] Techpowerup Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1536 MB

[GTX590-review-bit-tech-9] "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Details Leaked!". 21 March 2011.

[GTX590-techarp-leaks-10] "GeForce GTX 590 3GB Specifications". 24 March 2011.

[11] ttp://www.geforce.com/#/Hardware/GPUs/geforce-gtx-570m/specifications

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