GeForce GTX 1080 Ti released in 2017, the series' flagship unit
Release date
May 27, 2016; 8 years ago (May 27, 2016)
Codename
GP10x
Architecture
Pascal
Models
GeForce GTX series
Transistors
1.8B (GP108) 14 nm
3.3B (GP107) 14 nm
4.4B (GP106) 16 nm
7.2B (GP104) 16 nm
12B (GP102) 16 nm
Fabrication process
TSMC 16 nm (FinFET)
Samsung 14 nm (FinFET)
Cards
Entry-level
GeForce GT 1010
GeForce GT 1030
Mid-range
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GTX 1060
High-end
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
GeForce GTX 1080
Enthusiast
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Nvidia Titan X (Pascal)
Nvidia Titan Xp
API support
Direct3D
Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 12 1) Shader Model 6.7
OpenCL
OpenCL 3.0[1][lower-alpha 1]
OpenGL
OpenGL 4.6[2]
Vulkan
Vulkan 1.3[3]
SPIR-V 1.4
History
Predecessor
GeForce 900 series
Successor
GeForce 16 series
GeForce 20 series
The GeForce 10 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, initially based on the Pascal microarchitecture announced in March 2014. This design series succeeded the GeForce 900 series, and is succeeded by the GeForce 16 series and GeForce 20 series using the Turing microarchitecture.[citation needed]
Contents
1Architecture
2Products
2.1Founders Edition
2.2Reintroduction of older cards
2.3GeForce 10 (10xx) series for desktops
2.4GeForce 10 (10xx) series for notebooks
3Discontinued support
4See also
5References
6External links
Architecture
Main page: Engineering:Pascal (microarchitecture)
The Pascal microarchitecture, named after Blaise Pascal, was announced in March 2014 as a successor to the Maxwell microarchitecture.[4] The first graphics cards from the series, the GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070, were announced on May 6, 2016, and were released several weeks later on May 27 and June 10, respectively. The architecture incorporates either 16 nm FinFET (TSMC) or 14 nm FinFET (Samsung) technologies. Initially, chips were only produced in TSMC's 16 nm process, but later chips were made with Samsung's newer 14 nm process (GP107, GP108).[5]
PureVideo Feature Set H hardware video decoding HEVC Main10 (10 bit), Main12 (12 bit) & VP9 hardware decoding (GM200 & GM204 did not support HEVC Main10/Main12 & VP9 hardware decoding)[6]
NVENC HEVC Main10 10 bit hardware encoding (except GP108 which doesn't support NVENC[8])
GPU Boost 3.0
Simultaneous Multi-Projection
HB SLI Bridge Technology
New memory controller with GDDR5X & GDDR5 support (GP102, GP104, GP106)[9]
Dynamic load balancing scheduling system. This allows the scheduler to dynamically adjust the amount of the GPU assigned to multiple tasks, ensuring that the GPU remains saturated with work except when there is no more work that can safely be distributed. Nvidia therefore has safely enabled asynchronous compute in Pascal's driver.[10]
Instruction-level preemption. In graphics tasks, the driver restricts this to pixel-level preemption because pixel tasks typically finish quickly and the overhead costs of doing pixel-level preemption are much lower than performing instruction-level preemption. Compute tasks get either thread-level or instruction-level preemption. Instruction-level preemption is useful because compute tasks can take long times to finish and there are no guarantees on when a compute task finishes, so the driver enables the very expensive instruction-level preemption for these tasks.[11]
Triple buffering implemented in the driver level. Nvidia calls this "Fast Sync". This has the GPU maintain three frame buffers per monitor. This results in the GPU continuously rendering frames, and the most recently completely rendered frame is sent to a monitor each time it needs one. This removes the initial delay that double buffering with vsync causes and disallows tearing. The costs are that more memory is consumed for the buffers and that the GPU will consume power drawing frames that might be wasted because two or more frames could possibly be drawn between the time a monitor is sent a frame and the time the same monitor needs to be sent another frame. In this case, the latest frame is picked, causing frames drawn after the previously displayed frame but before the frame that is picked to be completely wasted.[12] This feature has been backported to Maxwell-based GPUs in driver version 372.70.[13]
Nvidia has announced that the Pascal GP100 GPU will feature four High Bandwidth Memory stacks, allowing a total of 16 GB HBM2 on the highest-end models,[14] 16 nm technology,[5] Unified Memory and NVLink.[15]
Starting with Windows 10 version 2004, support has been added for using a hardware graphics scheduler to reduce latency and improve performance, which requires a driver level of WDDM 2.7.
Products
Founders Edition
GTX 1080 Ti PCB and die
Announcing the GeForce 10 series products, Nvidia introduced Founders Edition graphics card versions of the GTX 1060, 1070, 1070 Ti, 1080 and 1080 Ti. These are what were previously known as reference cards, i.e. which were designed and built by Nvidia and not by its authorized board partners. These cards have started being used as reference to measure performance of partner cards. The Founders Edition cards have a die cast machine-finished aluminum body with a single radial fan and a vapor chamber cooling (1070 Ti, 1080, 1080 Ti only[16]), an upgraded power supply and a new low profile backplate (1070, 1070 Ti, 1080, 1080 Ti only).[17] Nvidia also released a limited supply of Founders Edition cards for the GTX 1060 that were only available directly from Nvidia's website.[18] Founders Edition cards prices (with the exception of the GTX 1070 Ti and 1080 Ti) are greater than MSRP of partners cards; however, some partners' cards, incorporating a complex design, with liquid or hybrid cooling may cost more than Founders Edition.
An Inno3D GeForce GTX 1050 Twin X2
A GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition in a computer
Reintroduction of older cards
GeForce TitanXp (Pascal)
Due to production problems surrounding the RTX 30-series cards and a general shortage of graphics cards due to production issues caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a global shortage of semiconductor chips, and general demand for graphics cards increasing due to an increase in cryptocurrency mining, the GTX 1050 Ti, alongside the RTX 2060 and its Super counterpart,[19] was brought back into production in 2021.[20][21]
The reintroduction of the GTX 1050 Ti in 2021 caused a minor controversy regarding pricing; in Poland, during the 1050 Ti's launch period, the card cost around 600-850 Polish złotych, compared to the 2021 price of 1000 Polish złotych.[22]
In addition, Nvidia quietly released the GeForce GT 1010 in January 2021.[23]
↑In OpenCL 3.0, OpenCL 1.2 functionality has become a mandatory baseline, while all OpenCL 2.x and OpenCL 3.0 features were made optional.
↑The Nvidia Titan Xp & the Founders Edition GTX 1080 Ti does not have a dual link DVI port, but a DisplayPort to single link DVI adapter is included in the box.
↑ 3.03.1Shader Processors: Texture mapping units: Render output units
↑ 4.04.1The number of streaming multiprocessors on the GPU.
↑ 5.05.15.2GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 cards shipped after April 2017 feature increased memory speeds, thus increasing memory bandwidth.
↑ 6.06.1Pixel fillrate is calculated as the lowest of three numbers: number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed, number of rasterizers multiplied by the number of fragments they can generate per rasterizer multiplied by the base core clock speed, and the number of streaming multiprocessors multiplied by the number of fragments per clock that they can output multiplied by the base clock rate.
↑ 7.07.1Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
↑ 8.08.1For calculating the processing power, see the Performance subsection of the Pascal architecture article.
↑ 9.09.1SLI HB only supports a maximum of 2-way SLI using SLI HB bridges, however if using traditional SLI bridges it can support a maximum of 4-way SLI but the performance is mostly improved in synthetic benchmarks only.
↑ 10.010.110.210.3Lacks hardware video encoder
↑The GTX 1070 has one of the four GPCs disabled in the die. Losing one of the Raster Engines only allows for the use of 48 ROPs per cycle.
GeForce 10 (10xx) series for notebooks
The biggest highlight to this line of notebook GPUs is the implementation of configured specifications close to (for the GTX 1060–1080) and exceeding (for the GTX 1050/1050 Ti) that of their desktop counterparts, as opposed to having "cut-down" specifications in previous generations. As a result, the "M" suffix is completely removed from the model's naming schemes, denoting these notebook GPUs to possess similar performance to those made for desktop PCs, including the ability to overclock their core frequencies by the user, something not possible with previous generations of notebook GPUs. This was made possible by having lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) ratings as compared to their desktop equivalents, making these desktop-level GPUs thermally feasible to be implemented into OEM notebook chassis with improved thermal dissipation designs, and, as such, are only available through the OEMs. In addition, the entire line of GTX Notebook GPUs also are available in lower-TDP and quieter variations called the "Max-Q Design", specifically made for ultra-thin gaming systems in conjunction with OEM Partners that incorporate enhanced heat dissipation mechanisms with lower operating noise volumes, which are also made available as an additional more powerful option to existing gaming notebooks as well, which was launched on 27 June 2017.
In addition, the GT series line of Notebook GPUs is no longer introduced starting from this generation, replaced by the MX series of Notebook GPUs. Only the MX150 is based on Pascal's GP108 die used on the GT1030 for Desktops, with higher clock frequencies compared to its Desktop counterpart, while the other chips in the MX series were re-branded versions of the previous generation GPUs (MX130 is a re-branded GT940MX GPU while MX110 is a re-branded GT920MX GPU).[citation needed]
Supported APIs are: Direct3D 12 (feature level 12_1 or 11_0 on MX110 and MX130), OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0 and Vulkan 1.2
Only GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 have SLI support.
Model
Launch
Code name(s)
Fab (nm)
Transistors (billion)
Die size (mm2)
Bus interface
Core config[lower-alpha 1]
SM Count[lower-alpha 2]
L2 cache (MB)
Clock speeds
Fillrate[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]
Memory
Processing power (GFLOPS)[lower-alpha 5]
TDP (watts)
Base core clock (MHz)
Boost core clock (MHz)
Memory (MT/s)
Pixel (GP/s)
Texture (GT/s)
Size (GB)
Bandwidth (GB/s)
Type
Bus width (bit)
Single precision (Boost)
Double precision (Boost)
Half precision (Boost)
GeForce MX110[lower-alpha 6][61][62]
2017
GM108 (N16V-GMR1)
28
?
?
PCIe 3.0 ×4
384:24:8
3
1.0
965
993
1800 (DDR3) 5000 (GDDR5)
7.944
23.83
2
14.4 (DDR3) 40.1 (GDDR5)
DDR3 GDDR5
64
741.1 (762.6)
23.16 (23.83)
N/A
30
GeForce MX130[lower-alpha 6][63][64]
GM108 (N16S-GTR)
1122
1242
9.936
29.81
861.7 (953.9)
26.93 (29.81)
GeForce MX150[lower-alpha 6][65][66][67]
2017
GP108 (N17S-LG)
14
1.8
74
384:24:16
0.5
937
1038
5000
14.99
22.49
2 4
40.1
GDDR5
719.6 (797.2)
22.49 (24.91)
11.24 (12.45)
10
GP108 (N17S-G1)
1468
1532
6000
23.49
35.23
48
1127 (1177)
35.23 (36.77)
17.62 (18.38)
25
GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q (Notebook)[68][69]
2018
GP107 (N17P-G0)
3.3
132
PCIe 3.0 ×16
640:40:16
5
1.0
999–1189
1139–1328
7000
19.02
47.56
112
128
1278–1521 (1457–1699)
39.96–47.56 (45.56–53.12)
19.98–23.78 (22.78–26.56)
34-40
GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)[68][69]
2017
1354
1493
21.66
54.16
1733 (1911)
54.16 (59.72)
27.08 (29.86)
53
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q (Notebook)[68][70]
2018
GP107 (N17P-G1)
768:48:32
6
1151–1290
1290–1417
41.28
61.92
4
1767–1981 (1981–2176)
55.24–61.92 (61.92–68.02)
27.62–30.96 (30.96–34.01)
40-46
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Notebook)[68][70]
2017
1493
1620
47.78
71.66
2293 (2488)
71.66 (77.76)
35.83 (38.88)
64
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q (Notebook)[68][71]
2017
GP106 (N17E-G1)
16
4.4
200
1280:80:48
10
1.5
1063–1265
1341–1480
8000
60.72
101.2
3 6
192
192
2721–3238 (3432–3788)
85.04–101.2 (107.3–118.4)
42.52–50.60 (53.64–59.20)
60-70
GeForce GTX 1060 (Notebook)[68][71]
2016
1404
1670
67.39
112.3
3594 (4275)
112.3 (133.6)
56.16 (66.80)
80
GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q (Notebook)[68][72]
2017
GP104 (N17E-G2)
7.2
314
2048:128:64
16
2.0
1101–1215
1265–1379
77.76
155.5
8
256
256
4509–4977 (5181–5648)
140.9–155.5 (161.9–176.5)
70.46–77.76 (80.96–88.26)
80-90
GeForce GTX 1070 (Notebook)[68][72]
2016
1442
1645
92.29
184.6
5906 (6738)
184.6 (210.6)
92.29 (105.3)
115
GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q (Notebook)[68][73]
2017
GP104 (N17E-G3)
2560:160:64
20
1101–1290
1278–1458
10000
82.56
206.4
320
GDDR5X
5637–6605 (6543–7465)
176.2–206.4 (204.5–233.3)
88.08–103.2 (102.2–116.6)
90-110
GeForce GTX 1080 (Notebook)[68][73]
2016
1556
1733
99.58
249.0
7967 (8873)
249.0 (277.3)
124.5 (138.6)
150
↑Shader Processors: Texture mapping units: Render output units
↑The number of streaming multiprocessors on the GPU.
↑Pixel fillrate is calculated as the lowest of three numbers: number of ROPs multiplied by the base core clock speed, number of rasterizers multiplied by the number of fragments they can generate per rasterizer multiplied by the base core clock speed, and the number of streaming multiprocessors multiplied by the number of fragments per clock that they can output multiplied by the base clock rate.
↑Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of TMUs multiplied by the base core clock speed.
↑For calculating the processing power, see the Performance subsection of the Pascal architecture article.
↑ 6.06.16.2Lacks hardware video encoder and decoder
Discontinued support
Nvidia stopped releasing 32-bit drivers for 32-bit operating systems after driver 391.35 in March 2018.[74]
Nvidia announced that after release of the 470 drivers, it would transition driver support for the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems to legacy status and continue to provide critical security updates for these operating systems through September 2024.[75] The GeForce 10 series is the last Nvidia GPU generation to support Windows 7/8.x or any 32-bit operating system; beginning with the Turing architecture, newer Nvidia GPUs now require a 64-bit operating system.
See also
GeForce 900 series
GeForce 16 series
GeForce 20 series
GeForce 30 series
GeForce 40 series
Nvidia Quadro
Nvidia Tesla
Pascal (microarchitecture)
List of Nvidia graphics processing units
References
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