GeForce 900 series

"GM200" redirects here. For the radars, see Ground Master 200 and Ground Master 200 Multi Mission.
For GeForce cards with a model number of 9XX0, see GeForce 9 series.

GeForce 900 series
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Founders Edition
Release dateSeptember 18, 2014; 10 years ago (September 18, 2014)
CodenameGM20x
ArchitectureMaxwell
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
  • GeForce GTX series
Transistors2.94B (GM206)
  • 5.2B (GM204)
  • 8.0B (GM200)
Fabrication processTSMC 28 nm
Cards
Mid-range
  • GeForce GTX 950
  • GeForce GTX 960
High-end
  • GeForce GTX 970
  • GeForce GTX 980
Enthusiast
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
API support
DirectXDirect3D 12 (feature level 12_1)[2][3][4][5]
Shader Model 6.7
OpenCLOpenCL 3.0[a]
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
VulkanVulkan 1.3[1]
SPIR-V
History
Predecessor
SuccessorGeForce 10 series
Support status
Maxwell fully supported

The GeForce 900 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 700 series and serving as the high-end introduction to the Maxwell microarchitecture, named after James Clerk Maxwell. They are produced with TSMC's 28 nm process.

With Maxwell, the successor to Kepler, Nvidia expected three major outcomes: improved graphics capabilities, simplified programming, and better energy efficiency compared to the GeForce 700 series and GeForce 600 series.[6]

Maxwell was announced in September 2010,[7] with the first Maxwell-based GeForce consumer-class products released in early 2014.[8]


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  1. ^ "Vulkan Driver Support". Nvidia. February 10, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  2. ^ Ryan Smith. "Maxwell 2's New Features: Direct3D 11.3 & VXGI - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Review: Maxwell Mark 2". anandtech.com.
  3. ^ "Maxwell and DirectX 12 Delivered". The Official NVIDIA Blog.
  4. ^ "MSDN Blogs". msdn.com. Microsoft.
  5. ^ Ryan Smith. "Microsoft Details Direct3D 11.3 & 12 New Rendering Features". anandtech.com.
  6. ^ "Nvidia: Next-Generation Maxwell Architecture Will Break New Grounds - X-bit labs". xbitlabs.com. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.
  7. ^ Ryan Smith. "GTC 2010 Day 1: NVIDIA Announces Future GPU Families for 2011 And 2013". anandtech.com.
  8. ^ "GeForce GTX 750 Class GPUs: Serious Gaming, Incredible Value". geforce.com.