NVIDIA GF116S

GF116S

N12E-GE2-A1

Block Diagram

SM Diagram

NVIDIA's GF116S GPU uses the Fermi 2.0 architecture and is made using a 40 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 238 mm² and a transistor count of 1,170 million it is a medium-sized chip. GF116S supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.1 and CUDA 2.1 can be used. It features 144 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 16 ROPs.

Further reading: Fermi Compute Architecture

Graphics Processor

Released: Mar 22nd, 2012

GPU Name: GF116S

Codename: NVCF

Architecture: Fermi 2.0

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 40 nm

Transistors: 1,170 million

Density: 4.9M / mm²

Die Size: 238 mm²

Package: BGA-1005

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (11_0)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 1.1

Vulkan: N/A

CUDA: 2.1

Shader Model: 5.1

WDDM: 2.3

PureVideo HD: VP4

VDPAU: Feature Set C

Render Config

Shading Units: 144

TMUs: 24

ROPs: 16

SM Count: 3

SFUs: 32

GPCs: 1

L1 Cache: 64 KB per SM

L2 Cache: 256 KB

Max. TDP: 35 W

All Fermi 2.0 GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2024 Blackwell
2023 Hopper
2022-2024 Ada Lovelace
2020-2024 Ampere
2018-2022 Turing
2017-2020 Volta
2016-2021 Pascal
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2006-2010 Tesla
2003-2013 Curie
2003-2005 Rankine
2001-2003 Kelvin
1999-2005 Celsius
1998-2000 Fahrenheit

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GF116S GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M	N12E-GE2-A1	2 GB	144	24	16	650 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M	N12E-GE2-A1	2 GB	144	24	16	675 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 2 GB	N12E-GE2-A1	2 GB	144	24	16	675 MHz	900 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3 GB	N12E-GE2-A1	3 GB	144	24	16	590 MHz	900 MHz