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NVIDIA GM206
GM206
GM206-250-A1
GM206-251-A1
GM206-300-A1
Block Diagram
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
Released
Jan 22nd, 2015
GPU Name
GM206
Codename NV126
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
Density
12.9M / mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Package
BGA-1428
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
CUDA
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
WDDM 3.1
NVENC 5th Gen
NVDEC 2nd Gen
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
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA GM206 GPU
Name
Chip
Memory
Shaders
TMUs
ROPs
Base Clock
Boost Clock
Memory Clock
GM206-300-A1
2 GB
1024
64
32
1127 MHz
1178 MHz
1753 MHz
GM206-250-A1
2 GB
768
48
32
1024 MHz
1188 MHz
1653 MHz
4 GB
1024
64
32
872 MHz
1072 MHz
1375 MHz
2 GB
512
32
32
1087 MHz
1239 MHz
1253 MHz
GTX 960 OEM
4 GB
1024
64
32
1176 MHz
1201 MHz
1753 MHz
GM206-875-A1
4 GB
768
48
32
796 MHz
1163 MHz
1653 MHz
GM206-251-A1
2 GB
768
48
32
1026 MHz
1190 MHz
1653 MHz
4 GB
1024
64
32
695 MHz
1036 MHz
1377 MHz
GM206 GPU Notes
NVENC: 5th Gen
NVDEC: 2nd Gen
PureVideo HD: VP7
VDPAU: Feature Set F
Latest Drivers:
Windows Vista:
GeForce Release 365.19
Quadro Release R346 U7 (348.40) / R352 BETA (352.86)
Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 (x32 / x64):
GeForce Release 391.35 / 474.89
Quadro Release R390 U9 (392.37) / R440 U4 (441.66)
Data Center Release 427.11
Windows 10 / 11 (x32 / x64):
GeForce Release 391.35 / Latest
Quadro Release R390 U9 (392.37) / Latest
Data Center Release: Latest
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