GeForce 800M series

For GeForce cards with a model number of 8XX0, see GeForce 8 series.

GeForce 800M series
Release dateMarch 12, 2014; 10 years ago (March 12, 2014)[1]
CodenameGF117
GK104
GM10x
ArchitectureFermi
Kepler
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GTX series
Transistors585M (GF117)
  • 1.02B (GK208)
  • 1.87B (GM107)
  • 3.54B (GK104)
Fabrication processTSMC 28 nm
Cards
Entry-levelGeForce 800M
GeForce 820M
GeForce 825M
GeForce 830M
GeForce 840M
GeForce 845M
Mid-rangeGeForce GTX 850M
GeForce GTX 860M
High-endGeForce GTX 870M
GeForce GTX 880M
API support
DirectXDirect3D 12.0 (feature level 11_0)[3][4] Shader Model 6.7 (Maxwell), Shader Model 6.5 (Kepler) or Shader Model 5.1 (Fermi)
OpenCLOpenCL 3.0[a]
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6[2]
VulkanVulkan 1.0
n/a (GF117)
SPIR-V
History
PredecessorGeForce 600 series
VariantGeForce 700 series
SuccessorGeForce 900 series
Support status
Fermi cards unsupported
Security updates for Kepler until September 2024
Skewed view of mainboard with NVIDIA GPU and VRAM chips
NVIDIA N15P-GX-A2 GPU of the GeForce 860M with its VRAM

The GeForce 800M series is a family of graphics processing units by Nvidia for laptop PCs.[3] It consists of rebrands of mobile versions of the GeForce 700 series[3] and some newer chips that are lower end compared to the rebrands.

The GeForce 800 series name was originally planned to be used for both desktop and mobile chips based on the Maxwell microarchitecture (GM-codenamed chips), named after the Scottish theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell, which was previously introduced into the GeForce 700 series in the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti, released on February 18, 2014.[5] However, because mobile GPUs under the GeForce 800M series had already been released using the Kepler architecture, Nvidia decided to rename its GeForce 800 series desktop GPUs as the GeForce 900 series.[3]

The Maxwell microarchitecture, the successor to Kepler microarchitecture, was the first Nvidia architecture to feature an integrated ARM CPU of its own.[6] This enabled Maxwell GPUs to be more independent from the main CPU according to Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.[7] Nvidia expects three major things from the Maxwell architecture: improved graphics capabilities, simplified programming, and better energy-efficiency compared to the GeForce 700 series and GeForce 600 series.[8]

  1. ^ Burnes, Andrew (March 12, 2014). "Introducing GTX 800M Notebook GPUs". GeForce.com. Nvidia. Retrieved August 31, 2014.
  2. ^ "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M". TechPowerUp.
  3. ^ a b c d Shilov, Anton (August 29, 2014). "Nvidia to skip GeForce GTX 800 series, to introduce GeForce GTX 970, GTX 980 in mid-September". KitGuru.
  4. ^ Kowaliski, Cyril (March 21, 2014). "DirectX 12 will also add new features for next-gen GPUs". The Tech Report. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  5. ^ Smith, Ryan; T S, Ganesh (February 18, 2014). "The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move". AnandTech. Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  6. ^ Nvidia Maxwell to be first GPU with ARM CPU in 2013, Guru3d.com
  7. ^ "Nvidia Maxwell Graphics Processors to Have Integrated ARM General-Purpose Cores - X-bit labs". xbitlabs.com. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013.
  8. ^ "Nvidia: Next-Generation Maxwell Architecture Will Break New Grounds - X-bit labs". xbitlabs.com. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.


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