The GeForce 10 series is a series of graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by Nvidia, initially based on the Pascal microarchitecture announced in March 2014. It succeeds the GeForce 900 series, and was released in May 2016.
Architecture
The Pascal microarchitecture, named after Blaise Pascal, was announced in March 2014 as a successor to the Maxwell microarchitecture. The first graphics cards from the series, the GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070, were announced on May 6, 2016, and were released several weeks later on May 27 and June 10, respectively. The architecture incorporates either 16 nm FinFET (TSMC) or 14 nm FinFET (Samsung) technologies. Initially, chips were only produced in TSMC's 16 nm process, but later chips were made with Samsung's newer 14 nm process (GP107, GP108).
New Features in GP10x: CUDA Compute Capability 6.0 (GP100 only), 6.1 (GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107, GP108) DisplayPort 1.4 (No DSC) HDMI 2.0b Fourth generation Delta Color Compression PureVideo Feature Set H hardware video decoding HEVC Main10 (10 bit), Main12 (12 bit) & VP9 hardware decoding (GM200 & GM204 did not support HEVC Main10/Main12 & VP9 hardware decoding) HDCP 2.2 support for 4K DRM protected content playback & streaming (Maxwell GM200 & GM204 lack HDCP 2.2 support, GM206 supports HDCP 2.2) NVENC HEVC Main10 10 bit hardware encoding (except GP108 which doesn't support NVENC) GPU Boost 3.0 Simultaneous Multi-Projection HB SLI Bridge Technology New memory controller with GDDR5X & GDDR5 support (GP102, GP104, GP106) Dynamic load balancing scheduling system. 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. Nvidia therefore has safely enabled asynchronous compute in Pascal's driver. Instruction-level preemption. 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. Compute tasks get either thread-level or instruction-level preemption. 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. Triple buffering implemented in the driver level. Nvidia calls this "Fast Sync". This has the GPU maintain three frame buffers per monitor. 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. This removes the initial delay that double buffering with vsync causes, thereby preventing tearing. 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. 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. This feature has been backported to Maxwell-based GPUs in driver version 372.70.
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, 16 nm technology, Unified Memory and NVLink.
Starting with Windows 10 version 2004, support has been added for using a hardware graphics scheduler to reduce latency and improve performance, which requires a driver level of WDDM 2.7.
Products Founders Edition Announcing the GeForce 10 series products, Nvidia introduced Founders Edition graphics card versions of the GTX 1060, 1070, 1070 Ti, 1080 and 1080 Ti. These are what were previously known as reference cards, i.e. which were designed and built by Nvidia and not by its authorized board partners. These cards were used as reference to measure performance of partner cards. The Founders Edition cards have a die cast machine-finished aluminum body with a single radial fan and a vapor chamber cooling (1070 Ti, 1080, 1080 Ti only), an upgraded power supply and a new low profile backplate (1070, 1070 Ti, 1080, 1080 Ti only). Nvidia also released a limited supply of Founders Edition cards for the GTX 1060 that were only available directly from Nvidia's website. Founders Edition cards prices (with the exception of the GTX 1070 Ti and 1080 Ti) are greater than MSRP of partners cards; however, some partners' cards, incorporating a complex design, with liquid or hybrid cooling may cost more than Founders Edition. GeForce 10 (10xx) series for desktops Supported display standards are: DP 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b, dual link DVI Supported APIs are: Direct3D 12 (feature level 12_1), OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0 and Vulkan 1.3
Model Launch Code name(s) rowspan=2 rowspan=2 rowspan=2 Businterface Coreconfig SMcount L2 cache(KB) Clockspeeds Fillrate Memory Processingpower(GFLOPS) TDP(watts) SLI HBsupport LaunchMSRP(USD) Basecoreclock(MHz) Boostcoreclock(MHz) Memory(MT/s) Pixel(GP/s) Texture(GT/s) Size(GB) Bandwidth(GB/s) Type Buswidth(bit) Single precision(boost) Double precision(boost) Half precision(boost) Standard FoundersEditionGeForce GT1010(DDR4) GP108-200-A1141.874PCIe3.0×4256:16:162256 1151 1379 2100 18.42 18.42 2 16.8 DDR4 64 589.3(706.1) 24.56(29.42) rowspan="2" 20 rowspan=11 rowspan=9 GeForce GT1010 GP108-200-A1 1228 1468 5000 23.49 23.49 40.1 GDDR5 629(752) 26.2(31.3) 30 70GeForce GT1030(DDR4) GP108-310-A1384:24:163512 1151 1379 2100 18.41 27.6 16.8 DDR4 883(1059) 27(33) 13(16) 2080GeForce GT1030 GP108-300-A1 1227 1468 6000 19.6 29.4 48GDDR5 942(1127) 29(35) 15(18) 301050(2GB) GP107-300-A13.3132PCIe3.0×16 640:40:32 5 1024 1354 14557000 43.3 54.2 112 128 1733(1862) 54(58) 27(29)75 109GeForce GTX1050(3GB) GP107-301-A1 768:48:246 768 1392 1518 33.4 66.8 3 84 96 2138(2332) 66(72) 33(36) GeForce GTX1050Ti GP107-400-A1 768:48:32 1024 1290 1392 41.3 61.9 4 112 128 1981(2138) 62(67) 31(33) 139GeForce GTX1060(3GB) GP106-300-A1164.4200 1152:72:48 9 153615061708 8000 72.3 108.4 3 192 192 3470(3935) 108(123) 54(61)120 199GeForce GTX1060(5GB) GP106-350-K3-A1 1280:80:4010 1280 8000 60.2120.5 5 160 1603855(4372)120(137)60(68) GeForce GTX1060 GP106-400-A1GP106-410-A11280:80:481536 8000900072.36 192216192 249 299GeForce GTX1060(GDDR5X) GP104-150-KA-A17.23148000 192GDDR5X GeForce GTX1070 GP104-200-A1 1920:120:64 1520481683 96.4 180.78256GDDR5256 5783(6463) 181(202) 90(101) 1502-way SLI HBor 2/3/4-way SLI 379449GeForce GTX1070Ti GP104-300-A1 2432:152:64 191607102.8 244.3 7816(8186) 244(256) 122(128)180 449GeForce GTX1080 GP104-400-A1 GP104-410-A1 2560:160:64 20 17331000011000 257.1 320352GDDR5X 8228(8873) 257(277) 128(139) 599699GeForce GTX1080Ti GP102-350-K1-A1124713584:224:8828 2816 1480 158211000 130.2 331.5 11 484 352 10609(11340) 332(354) 166(177)250 699NvidiaTitanX GP102-400-A13584:224:963072 1417 153110000 136 317.412 480384 10157(10974) 317(343) 159(171) rowspan="2" 1200NvidiaTitanXp GP102-450-A13840:240:96 30 1405 158211410 135 337.2 547.7 10790(12150) 337(380) 169(190)
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 GTX 1050/1050 Ti) 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 by having lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) ratings as compared to their desktop equivalents, making these desktop-level GPUs thermally feasible to be implemented into OEM notebook chassis with improved thermal dissipation designs, and, as such, are only available through the OEMs. In addition, the entire line of GTX Notebook GPUs also are available in lower-TDP and quieter variations called the "Max-Q Design", specifically made for ultra-thin gaming systems in conjunction with OEM Partners that incorporate enhanced heat dissipation mechanisms with lower operating noise volumes, which are also made available as an additional more powerful option to existing gaming notebooks as well, which was launched on 27 June 2017.
In addition, the GT series line of Notebook GPUs is no longer introduced starting from this generation, replaced by the MX series of Notebook GPUs. Only the MX150 is based on Pascal's GP108 die used on the GT1030 for Desktops, with higher clock frequencies compared to its Desktop counterpart, while the other chips in the MX series were re-branded versions of the previous generation GPUs (MX130 is a re-branded GT940MX GPU while MX110 is a re-branded GT920MX GPU).
Supported APIs are: Direct3D 12 (feature level 12_1 or 11_0 on MX110 and MX130), OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0 and Vulkan 1.3 Only GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 have SLI support.
Model Launch Codename(s) rowspan=2 rowspan=2 rowspan=2 Businterface Coreconfig SMCount L2cache(MB) Clock speeds Fillrate Memory Processing power (GFLOPS) TDP(watts) Basecoreclock(MHz) Boostcoreclock(MHz) Memory(MT/s) Pixel(GP/s) Texture(GT/s) Size(GB) Bandwidth(GB/s) Type Buswidth(bit) Singleprecision(Boost) Doubleprecision(Boost) Halfprecision(Boost)GeForceMX110 GM10828 rowspan=2 rowspan=2 PCIe 3.0×4384:24:831.0 965 9931800(DDR3)5000(GDDR5) 7.944 23.83214.4(DDR3)40.1(GDDR5)DDR3GDDR564 741.1(762.6) 23.16(23.83) rowspan=2 30GeForceMX130 GM108(N16S-GTR) 1122 1242 9.936 29.81 861.7(953.9) 26.93(29.81)GeForceMX150 GP108(N17S-LG)141.874384:24:160.5 937 1038 5000 14.99 22.4924 40.1GDDR5 719.6(797.2) 22.49(24.91) 11.24(12.45) 10GP108(N17S-G1) 1468 1532 6000 23.49 35.23 48 1127(1177) 35.23(36.77) 17.62(18.38) 251050 Max-Q(Notebook) GP107(N17P-G0)3.3132PCIe 3.0×16640:40:1651.0 9991189 113913287000 19.02 47.56112128 12781521(14571699) 39.9647.56(45.5653.12) 19.9823.78(22.7826.56) 34-40GeForce GTX1050(Notebook) 1354 1493 21.66 54.16 1733(1911) 54.16(59.72) 27.08(29.86) 53GeForce GTX(Notebook) GP107(N17P-G1)768:48:326 11511290 12901417 41.28 61.924 17671981(19812176) 55.2461.92(61.9268.02) 27.6230.96(30.9634.01) 40-46GeForce GTX1050 Ti(Notebook) 1493 1620 47.78 71.66 2293(2488) 71.66(77.76) 35.83(38.88) 64GeForce GTX1060 Max-Q(Notebook) GP106(N17E-G1)164.42001280:80:48101.5 10631265 134114808000 60.72 101.236192192 27213238(34323788) 85.04101.2(107.3118.4) 42.5250.60(53.6459.20) 60-70GeForce GTX1060(Notebook) 1404 1670 67.39 112.3 3594(4275) 112.3(133.6) 56.16(66.80) 80GeForce GTX1070 Max-Q(Notebook) GP104(N17E-G2)7.23142048:128:64162.0 11011215 12651379 77.76 155.58256256 45094977(51815648) 140.9155.5(161.9176.5) 70.4677.76(80.9688.26) 80-90GeForce GTX1070(Notebook) 1442 1645 92.29 184.6 5906(6738) 184.6(210.6) 92.29(105.3) 115GeForce GTX1080 Max-Q(Notebook) GP104(N17E-G3)2560:160:6420 11011290 1278145810000 82.56 206.4320GDDR5X 56376605(65437465) 176.2206.4(204.5233.3) 88.08103.2(102.2116.6) 90-110GeForce GTX1080(Notebook) 1556 1733 99.58 249.0 7967(8873) 249.0(277.3) 124.5(138.6) 150
Reintroduction
Due to production problems surrounding the RTX 30-series cards and a general shortage of graphics cards due to production issues caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a global shortage of semiconductor chips, and general demand for graphics cards increasing due to an increase in cryptocurrency mining, the GTX 1050 Ti, alongside the RTX 2060 and its Super counterpart, was brought back into production in 2021.
In addition, Nvidia quietly released the GeForce GT 1010 in January 2021.
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