GeForce 500 series

For GeForce cards with a model number of 5XX0, see GeForce FX series.
For AMD's RX-500 GPUs, see RX 500.
GeForce 500 series
Release dateNovember 9, 2010; 14 years ago (November 9, 2010)
CodenameGF11x
ArchitectureFermi
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
  • GeForce GTX series
Transistors292M 40 nm (GF119)
  • 585M 40 nm (GF108)
  • 1.170M 40 nm (GF116)
  • 1.950M 40 nm (GF114)
  • 3.000M 40 nm (GF110)
Cards
Entry-levelGT 505
GT 510
GT 520
GT 530
Mid-rangeGT 545
GTX 550 Ti
GTX 560
GTX 560 Ti
GTX 560-448 Ti
High-endGTX 570
GTX 580
EnthusiastGTX 590
API support
DirectXDirect3D 12.0 (feature level 11_0)[1]
Shader Model 5.1
OpenCLOpenCL 1.1
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
History
PredecessorGeForce 400 series
SuccessorGeForce 600 series
Support status
Unsupported

The GeForce 500 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, as a refresh of the Fermi based GeForce 400 series. It was first released on November 9, 2010 with the GeForce GTX 580.

Its direct competitor was AMD's Radeon HD 6000 series; they were launched approximately a month apart.

  1. ^ Killian, Zak (July 3, 2017). "Nvidia finally lets Fermi GPU owners enjoy DirectX 12". Tech Report. Retrieved July 4, 2017.