GeForce 300 series

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GeForce 300 series
Release dateNovember 27, 2009;13 years ago (November 27, 2009)
CodenameGT21x
Architecture Tesla
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
Transistors260M 40 nm (GT218)
  • 486M 40 nm (GT216)
  • 727M 40 nm (GT215)
  • 754M 40 nm (GT215-301)
Cards
Entry-level310
315
GT 320
GT 330
Mid-rangeGT 340
API support
Direct3D Direct3D 10.1
Shader Model 4.1
OpenCL OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL OpenGL 3.3
History
Predecessor GeForce 9 series
Variant GeForce 200 series
Successor GeForce 400 series
Support status
Unsupported

The GeForce 300 series is a series of Tesla-based graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, first released in November 2009. Its cards are rebrands of the GeForce 200 series cards, available only for OEMs. All GPUs of the series support Direct3D 10.1, except the GT 330 (Direct3D 10.0).

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History

On November 27, 2009, Nvidia released its first GeForce 300 series video card, the GeForce 310. However, this card is a re-brand of one of Nvidia's older models (the GeForce 210) and not based on the newer Fermi architecture. [1]

On February 2, 2010, Nvidia announced the release of the GeForce GT 320, GT 330 and GT 340, available to OEMs only. [2] The Geforce GT 340 is simply a rebadged GT 240, sharing exactly the same specifications, while the GT 320 and 330 were newer cards (albeit still based on the previous generation GT200b and G92b architecture). [2]

Chipset table

ModelLaunch Code name Fab (nm)Transistors (million)Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config [lower-alpha 1] Clock rate Fillrate Memory configurationProcessing power (GFLOPS) [lower-alpha 2] TDP (Watts)Comments
Core (MHz)Shader (MHz)Memory (MHz)Pixel (GP/s)Texture (GT/s)Size (MB)Bandwidth (GB/s)DRAM typeBus width (bit) Single precision
GeForce 310November 27, 2009GT218 TSMC 40 nm26057PCIe 2.0 x1616:8:4589140210002.3564.7125128DDR26444.830.5OEM Card, similar to Geforce 210
GeForce 315February 2010GT21648610048:16:4475110015803.87.651212.6DDR3105.633OEM Card, similar to Geforce GT220
GeForce GT 320GT21572714472:24:854013024.3212.96102425.3GDDR3128187.543OEM Card
GeForce GT 330 [3] GT215-301-A3 [4] 96:32:855013504.4017.6051232.00128257.375Specifications vary depending on OEM, similar to GT230 v2.
G92 [5] 50012504.00024.0025651.20256240.0
G92B [6] 96:32:168.000102416.32DDR2128
GeForce GT 340GT21596:32:855013403400512
1024		54.4GDDR5 [7] 128257.369OEM Card, similar to GT240

Discontinued support

NVIDIA ceased driver support for the GeForce 300 series on April 1, 2016. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "NVIDIA kicks off GeForce 300-series range with GeForce 310". November 27, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  2. 1 2 NVIDIA Launches GeForce GT 340, GT 330 and GT 320 - Softpedia News, February 22, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Nvidia GeForce GT 330 OEM | techPowerUp GPU Database". Techpowerup.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  7. ↑ "GeForce GT 340 OEM | GeForce". Nvidia.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  8. ↑ "EOL Windows driver support for legacy products" . Retrieved March 17, 2016.
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