GeForce 400 series
Series of GPUs by Nvidia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The GeForce 400 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, serving as the introduction of the Fermi microarchitecture. Its release was originally slated in November 2009,[2] however, after delays, it was released on March 26, 2010, with availability following in April 2010.
For AMD's RX-400 GPUs, see RX 400.
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Release date | April 12, 2010; 14 years ago (April 12, 2010) |
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Codename | GF10x |
Architecture | Fermi |
Models | GeForce series
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Transistors | 260M 40 nm (GT218 - GeForce 405 only)
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Cards | |
Entry-level | GT 420 GT 430 |
Mid-range | GT 440 GTS 450 GTX 460 GTX 465 |
High-end | GTX 470 GTX 480 |
API support | |
DirectX | Direct3D 11.0 (feature level 11_0)[1] Shader Model 5.1 |
OpenCL | OpenCL 1.1 |
OpenGL | OpenGL 4.6 |
History | |
Predecessor | GeForce 200 series |
Successor | GeForce 500 series |
Support status | |
Unsupported |
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Its direct competitor was ATI's Radeon HD 5000 series.