NVIDIA GM206
NVIDIA's GM206 GPU uses the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is made using a 28 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 228 mm² and a transistor count of 2,940 million it is a medium-sized chip. GM206 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 and CUDA 5.2 can be used. It features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.
Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- GM206
- Architecture
- Maxwell 2.0
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 28 nm
- Transistors
- 2,940 million
- Density
- 12.9M / mm²
- Die Size
- 228 mm²
- Released
- Jan 22nd, 2015
- Codename
- NV126
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.1
- CUDA
- 5.2
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- PureVideo HD
- VP7
- VDPAU
- Feature Set F
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 1024
- TMUs
- 64
- ROPs
- 32
- SMM Count
- 8
- GPCs
- 2
- L1 Cache
- 48 KB per SMM
- L2 Cache
- 1024 KB
- Max. TDP
- 120 W
- SFUs
- 256
All Maxwell 2.0 GPUs
- NVIDIA GM200
- NVIDIA GM204
- NVIDIA GM206
- NVIDIA GM20B
- NVIDIA GM20B
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
- 1998-2000 Fahrenheit
- 1999-2005 Celsius
- 2001-2003 Kelvin
- 2003-2005 Rankine
- 2003-2013 Curie
- 2006-2010 Tesla
- 2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
- 2010-2016 Fermi
- 2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
- 2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
- 2012-2018 Kepler
- 2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
- 2014-2017 Maxwell
- 2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
- 2016-2021 Pascal
- 2017-2020 Volta
- 2018-2021 Turing
- 2020-2021 Ampere
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GM206 GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
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GM206-300-A1 | 2 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 1127 MHz | 1178 MHz | 1753 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
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GM206-250-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 48 | 32 | 1024 MHz | 1188 MHz | 1653 MHz |
NVIDIA Tesla M4
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4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 872 MHz | 1072 MHz | 1375 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 GM206
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2 GB | 512 | 32 | 32 | 1087 MHz | 1239 MHz | 1253 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
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GTX 960 OEM | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 1176 MHz | 1201 MHz | 1753 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M | N16E-GR | 2 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 935 MHz | 1150 MHz | 1253 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
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GM206 950 OEM | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 937 MHz | 1203 MHz | 1253 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro M2000
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GM206-875-A1 | 4 GB | 768 | 48 | 32 | 796 MHz | 1163 MHz | 1653 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
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GM206-251-A1 | 2 GB | 768 | 48 | 32 | 1026 MHz | 1190 MHz | 1653 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro M2200 Mobile | 4 GB | 1024 | 64 | 32 | 695 MHz | 1036 MHz | 1377 MHz |