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NVIDIA GM206

GM206

GM206-250-A1

GM206-251-A1

GM206-300-A1

GM206 950 OEM

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SMM Diagram

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 3.0 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: 3.0

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 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	GM206-300-A1	2 GB	1024	64	32	1127 MHz	1178 MHz	1753 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950	GM206-250-A1	2 GB	768	48	32	1024 MHz	1188 MHz	1653 MHz
NVIDIA Tesla M4		4 GB	1024	64	32	872 MHz	1072 MHz	1375 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 GM206		2 GB	512	32	32	1087 MHz	1239 MHz	1253 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	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	GM206 950 OEM	4 GB	1024	64	32	937 MHz	1203 MHz	1253 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro M2000	GM206-875-A1	4 GB	768	48	32	796 MHz	1163 MHz	1653 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power	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