GeForce 700 series
| Release date | May 2013 |
|---|---|
| Codename | GK110 GK208 |
| Architecture | Kepler |
| Models | GeForce Series
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| Transistors and fabrication process |
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| Cards | |
| Entry-level | GeForce GT 705 GeForce GT 710 GeForce GT 720 GeForce GT 730 GeForce GT 740 GeForce GTX 745 |
| Mid-range | GeForce GTX 750 GeForce GTX 750 Ti GeForce GTX 760 192-Bit GeForce GTX 760 GeForce GTX 760 Ti |
| High-end | GeForce GTX 770 GeForce GTX 780 |
| Enthusiast | GeForce GTX 780 Ti GeForce GTX Titan GeForce GTX Titan Black GeForce GTX Titan Z |
| API support | |
| Direct3D | Direct3D 12.0 (feature level 11_0) |
| OpenCL | OpenCL 1.2 |
| OpenGL | OpenGL 4.5 |
| Vulkan |
Vulkan 1.0 SPIR-V |
| History | |
| Predecessor | GeForce 600 series |
| Variant | GeForce 800M series |
| Successor | GeForce 900 series |
The GeForce 700 Series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, used in desktop and laptop PCs. It is mainly based on a refresh of the Kepler microarchitecture (GK-codenamed chips) used in the previous GeForce 600 Series, but also includes cards based on the previous Fermi (GF) and later Maxwell (GM) architectures. A number of GeForce 700 series chips were released for mobile devices in April 2013. GeForce 700 series cards were first released in 2013, starting with the release of the GeForce GTX Titan on February 19, 2013, and the GeForce GTX 780 on May 23, 2013.
GK110 has been designed and is being marketed with computational performance in mind. It contains 7.1 billion transistors. This model also attempts to maximise energy efficiency through the execution of as many tasks as possible in parallel according to the capabilities of its streaming processors.
With GK110, increases in memory space and bandwidth for both the register file and the L2 cache over previous models, are seen. At the SMX level, GK110's register file space has increased to 256KB composed of 65K 32bit registers, as compared to Fermi's 33K 32bit registers totaling 128 KB. As for the L2 cache, GK110 L2 cache space increased by up to 1.5MB, 2x as big as GF110. Both the L2 cache and register file bandwidth have also doubled. Performance in register-starved scenarios is also improved as there are more registers available to each thread. This goes in hand with an increase of total number of registers each thread can address, moving from 63 registers per thread to 255 registers per thread with GK110.
With GK110, Nvidia also reworked the GPU texture cache to be used for compute. With 48KB in size, in compute the texture cache becomes a read-only cache, specializing in unaligned memory access workloads. Furthermore, error detection capabilities have been added to make it safer for use with workloads that rely on ECC.
This series will support DirectX 12.
Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) was added to Kepler GPUs with the latest Nvidia drivers.
The GeForce 700 Series contains features from both GK104 and GK110. Kepler based members of the 700 series add the following standard features to the GeForce family.
Derived from GK104 :
New Features from GK110 :
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