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{{Short description|Series of GPUs by Nvidia}}
{{Infobox GPU
| name = GeForce 200 series
| image = File:GTX295.jpg
| codename = GT200
| architecture = [[Tesla (microarchitecture)|Tesla]]
| created = {{start date and age|June 16, 2008}}
| model = GeForce series
| model1 = GeForce GT series
| model2 = GeForce GTS series
| model3 = GeForce GTX series
| transistors = 505M 55nm (G94b)
| transistors1 = 754M 55nm (G92b)
| transistors2 = 260M 40nm (GT218)
| transistors3 = 486M 40nm (GT216)
| transistors4 = 727M 40nm (GT215)
| transistors5 = 1,400M 65nm (GT200a)
| transistors6 = 1,400M 55nm (GT200b)
| entry = 205<br>210<br>GT 220<br>GT 230
| midrange = GT 240<br>GTS 250
| highend  = GTX 260<br>GTX 275<br>GTX 280
| enthusiast = GTX 285<br>GTX 295
| openglversion = [[Software:OpenGL#OpenGL 3.3|OpenGL 3.3]] 
| d3dversion = Direct3D 10.0 or 10.1
| openclversion = [[OpenCL#OpenCL 1.1|OpenCL 1.1]]
| predecessor = [[Engineering:GeForce 9 series|GeForce 9 series]]
| variant = [[Engineering:GeForce 300 series|GeForce 300 series]]
| successor   = [[Engineering:GeForce 400 series|GeForce 400 series]]
|caption=The GeForce GTX 295, released in 2009, the flagship unit of the 200 series}}
The '''GeForce 200 series''' is a series of [[Tesla (microarchitecture)|Tesla]]-based [[Engineering:GeForce|GeForce]] [[Graphics processing unit|graphics processing unit]]s developed by [[Company:Nvidia|Nvidia]].

==Architecture==
{{Main|Tesla (microarchitecture)}}
The GeForce 200 Series introduced Nvidia's second generation of [[Tesla (microarchitecture)]], Nvidia's unified shader architecture; the first major update to it since introduced with the GeForce 8 Series.

The GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 are based on the same processor core. During the manufacturing process, GTX chips were binned and separated through defect testing of the core's logic functionality. Those that fail to meet the GTX 280 hardware specification are re-tested and binned as GTX 260 (which is specified with fewer stream processors, less ROPs and a narrower memory bus).

In late 2008, Nvidia re-released the GTX 260 with 216 stream processors, up from 192. Effectively, there were two GTX 260 cards in production with non-trivial performance differences.

The GeForce 200 series GPUs (GT200a/b GPU), excluding GeForce GTS 250, GTS 240 GPUs (these are older G92b GPUs), have double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. GT200 GPUs also have improved performance in geometry shading.

{{As of|2018|8}}, the GT200 is the seventh largest commercial GPU ever constructed, consisting of 1.4 billion transistors covering a 576&nbsp;mm<sup>2</sup> die surface area built on a 65&nbsp;nm process. It is the fifth largest [[Engineering:CMOS|CMOS]]-logic chip that has been fabricated at the [[Company:TSMC|TSMC foundry]].  The GeForce 400 Series have since superseded the GT200 chips in transistor count, but the original GT200 dies still exceed the GF100 die size. It is larger than even the [[Engineering:Kepler (microarchitecture)|Kepler]]-based GK210 GPU used in the Tesla K80, which has 7.1 billion transistors on a 561&nbsp;mm<sup>2</sup> die manufactured in 28&nbsp;nm.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Ryan|title=NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU|url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/8729/nvidia-launches-tesla-k80-gk210-gpu|website=[[AnandTech]]|access-date=January 9, 2015}}</ref> The Ampere GA100 is currently the largest commercial GPU ever fabricated at 826&nbsp;mm<sup>2</sup> with 54.2 billion transistors.<ref>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15801/nvidia-announces-ampere-architecture-and-a100-products</ref>

Nvidia officially announced and released the retail version of the previously OEM only GeForce 210 (GT218 GPU) and GeForce GT 220 (GT216 GPU) on October 12, 2009. Nvidia officially announced and released the GeForce GT 240 (GT215 GPU) on November 17, 2009. The new 40nm GPUs feature the new PureVideo HD VP4 decoder hardware in them, the older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only have PureVideo HD VP2 or VP3(G98). They also support Compute Capability 1.2, whereas older GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs only supported Compute Capability 1.1. All GT21x GPUs also contain an audio processor inside and support 8 channel LPCM output through [[Engineering:HDMI|HDMI]].

== Chipset table ==
===GeForce 200 Series===
[[File:Gtx260.jpg|thumb|A [[Company:XFX|XFX]] GTX 260]]
All models support Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing, Angle-Independent Anisotropic Filtering, 240-bit OpenEXR HDR.
* <sup>1</sup> [[Unified shader model|Unified Shaders]] : [[Texture mapping unit]]s : [[Render output unit]]s

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center;"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Model
! rowspan=2 | Launch
! rowspan=2 | [[Social:Code name|Code name]]
! rowspan=2 | Fab (nm)
! rowspan=2 | Transistors (Million)
! rowspan=2 | Die size (mm<sup>2</sup>)
! rowspan=2 | Bus interface
! rowspan=2 | Core config <sup>1</sup>
! colspan=3 | Clock rate
! colspan=2 | [[Fillrate]]
! colspan=4 | Memory Configuration
! colspan=3 | [[Application programming interface|API]] support (version)
! rowspan=2 | Processing Power GFLOPS
! rowspan=2 | TDP (watts)
! rowspan=2 | Comments
|-
! Core ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Shader ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Memory ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Pixel ([[Pixel|GP]]/s)
! Texture ([[Texel (graphics)|GT]]/s)
! Size ([[Megabyte|MB]])
! Bandwidth ([[Gigabyte|GB]]/s)
! DRAM type
! Bus width ([[Bit|bit]])
! [[Software:DirectX|DirectX]]
! [[Software:OpenGL|OpenGL]]
! [[Software:Vulkan (API)|Vulkan]]
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce 205
| November 26, 2009
| GT218
| 40
| 260
| 57
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 8:4:4
| 589
| 1402
| 1000
| 2.356
| 2.356
| 512
| 8
| DDR2
| 64
| rowspan="3" | 10.1
| rowspan="15" | 3.3
| rowspan="15" {{n/a}}
| 33.4
| 30.5
| OEM only
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce 210
| October 12, 2009
| GT218
| 40
| 260
| 57
| PCIe 2.0 x16<br />PCIe x1<br />PCI
| 16:8:4
| 520<br />589
| 1230<br />1402
| 1000–1600
| 2.356
| 4.712
| 512<br />1024
| 4.0<br />8.0<br />12.8
| rowspan="2" | DDR2<br />DDR3
| 32<br />64
| 67.296
| 30.5
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 220
| October 12, 2009
| GT216
| 40
| 486
| 100
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 48:16:8
| 615(OEM)<br />625
| 1335(OEM)<br />1360
| 1000<br />1580
| 5
| 10
| 512<br />1024
| 16.0<br />25.3
| 128
| 192(OEM)<br />196
| 58
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 230 v.1
| 2009
| G94b
| 55
| 505
| 196 <ref>http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/617/geforce-gt-230.html</ref>
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 48:24:16
| 650
| 1625
| 1800
| 10.4
| 15.6
| 512<br />1024
| 57.6
| GDDR3
| 256
| 10
| 234
| 75
| OEM only
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 230 v.2
| 2009
| G92b
| 55
| 754
| 260
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 96:48:12
| 500
| 1242
| 1000
| 6
| 24
| 1536
| 24
| DDR2
| 192
| 10
| 357.69
| 75
| OEM only
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 240
| November 17, 2009
| GT215
| 40
| 727
| 139
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 96:32:8
| 550
| 1340
| 1800<br />2000<br />3400(GDDR5)
| 4.4
| 17.6
| 512<br />1024
| 28.8(OEM)<br />32<br />54.4(GDDR5)
| DDR3<br />GDDR3<br />GDDR5
| 128
| 10.1
| 385.9
| 69
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTS 240
| Q4 2009
| G92a<br />G92b
| 65<br />55
| 754
| 324<br />260
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 112:56:16
| 675
| 1620
| 2200
| 10.8
| 37.8
| 1024
| 70.4
| rowspan="9" | GDDR3
| 256
| rowspan="9" | 10.0
| 554.32
| 120
| OEM only
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTS 250 Green
| 2009
| G92b
| 65<br />55
| 754
| 260
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 128:64:16
| 702
| 1512
| 2000
| 11.2
| 44.9
| 512<br />1024
| 64.0
| 256
| 581
| 130
| 
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTS 250
| March 3, 2009
| G92-428-B1
| 65<br />55
| 754
| 260
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 128:64:16
| 738
| 1836
| 2000<br />2200
| 11.808
| 47.232
| 512<br />1024
| 64.0<br />70.4
| 256
| 705.024
| 150
| Some cards are rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 260
| June 16, 2008
| GT200-100-A2
| 65
| 1400
| 576
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 192:64:28
| 576
| 1242
| 1998
| 16.128
| 36.864
| 896 (1792)<ref>http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=321861</ref>
| 111.9
| 448
| 715.392
| 202
| Replaced by GTX 260 Core 216
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
| September 16, 2008
| GT200-103-A2<br />GT200-105-B3
| 65<br />55
| 1400
| 576<br />470
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 216:72:28
| 576
| 1242
| 1998
| 16.128
| 41.472
| 896 (1792)
| 111.9
| 448
| 804.816<br />874.8
| 182<br />171
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 275
| April 9, 2009
| GT200-400-B3
| 55
| 1400
| 470
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 240:80:28
| 633
| 1404
| 2268
| 17.724
| 50.6
| 896
| 127.0
| 448
| 1010.880
| 219
|Effectively one-half of the GTX 295
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 280
| June 17, 2008
| GT200-300-A2
| 65
| 1400
| 576
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 240:80:32
| 602
| 1296
| 2214
| 19.264
| 48.16
| 1024 (2048*)
| 141.7
| 512
| 933.120
| 236
| MSI launched a 2GB version. Replaced by GTX 285
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 285
| January 15, 2009
| GT200-350-B3
| 55
| 1400
| 470
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 240:80:32
| 648
| 1476
| 2484
| 20.736
| 51.84
| 1024 (2048*)
| 159.0
| 512
| 1062.72
| 204
| Palit and EVGA launched 2GB versions. EVGA GTX285 Classified can support 4-way SLI
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 295
| January 8, 2009
| 2× GT200-400-B3
| 55
| 2× 1400
| 2× 470
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 2× 240:80:28
| 576
| 1242
| 1998
| 2× 16.128
| 2× 46.08
| 2× 896
| 2× 111.9
| 2× 448
| 1788.480
| 289
| Dual PCB models were phased out in favor of a single PCB model with 2 GPUs
|-
|}

====Features====
Compute Capability: 1.1 (G92 [GTS250] GPU)
<br />Compute Capability: 1.2 (GT215, GT216, GT218 GPUs)
<br />Compute Capability: 1.3 has double precision support for use in GPGPU applications. (GT200a/b GPUs only)

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center;"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Model
! colspan=8 | Features
|-
! Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
! PureVideo 2 with VP2
Engine: (BSP and 240 AES)
! PureVideo 4 with VP4 Engine
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce 210
| colspan="1" rowspan="3" {{no}}
| colspan="1" rowspan="3" {{no}}
| colspan="3" rowspan="3" {{yes}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 220
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GT 240
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTS 250
| rowspan="7" {{yes}}<br/>3-Way (4-way for EVGA 285 Classified)
| colspan="1" rowspan="8" {{yes}}
| colspan="1" rowspan="8" {{no}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 260
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (55&nbsp;nm)
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 275
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 280
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 285
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| GeForce GTX 295
| {{yes}}<br/>
|}

===GeForce 200M (2xxM) Series===
The GeForce 200M Series is a graphics processor architecture for notebooks.
*<sup>1</sup> [[Unified shader model|Unified Shaders]] : [[Texture mapping unit]]s : [[Render output unit]]s
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center;"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Model
! rowspan=2 | Launch
! rowspan=2 | [[Social:Code name|Code name]]
! rowspan=2 | Fab (nm)
! rowspan=2 | Bus interface
! rowspan=2 | Core config<sup>1</sup>
! colspan=3 | Clock speed
! colspan=2 | [[Fillrate]]
! colspan=4 | Memory
! colspan=3 | [[Application programming interface|API]] support (version)
! rowspan=2 | Processing Power (GFLOPS)
! rowspan=2 | TDP (watts)
! rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! Core ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Shader ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Memory ([[Hertz|MHz]])
! Pixel ([[Pixel|GP]]/s)
! Texture ([[Texel (graphics)|GT]]/s)
! Size ([[Mebibyte|MiB]])
! Bandwidth ([[Gigabyte|GB]]/s)
! Bus type
! Bus width ([[Bit|bit]])
! [[Software:DirectX|DirectX]]
! [[Software:OpenGL|OpenGL]]
! [[Software:Vulkan (API)|Vulkan]]
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce G210M
| June 15, 2009
| GT218
| 40
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 16:8:4
| 625
| 1500
| 1600
| 2.5
| 5
| 512
| 12.8
| GDDR3
| 64
| 10.1
| rowspan="9" | 3.3
| rowspan=9 {{n/a}} 
| 72
| 14
| Lower clocked versions of the GT218 core is also known as Nvidia ION 2
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GT 220M
| 2009
| G96b
| 55
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 32:16:8
| 500
| 1250
| 1000<br />1600
| 4
| 8
| 1024
| 16<br />25.6
| DDR2<br />GDDR3
| 128
| 10.0
| 120
| 14
| Rebranded 9600M GT @55&nbsp;nm node shrink
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GT 230M
| June 15, 2009
| GT216
| 40
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 48:16:8
| 500
| 1100
| 1600
| 4
| 8
| 1024
| 25.6
| GDDR3
| 128
| rowspan="4" | 10.1
| 158
| 23
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GT 240M
| June 15, 2009
| GT216
| 40
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 48:16:8
| 550
| 1210
| 1600
| 4.4
| 8.8
| 1024
| 25.6
| GDDR3
| 128
| 174
| 23
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GTS 250M
| June 15, 2009
| GT215
| 40
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 96:32:8
| 500
| 1250
| 3200
| 4
| 16
| 1024
| 51.2
| GDDR5
| 128
| 360
| 28
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GTS 260M
| June 15, 2009
| GT215
| 40
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 96:32:8
| 550
| 1375
| 3600
| 4.4
| 17.6
| 1024
| 57.6
| GDDR5
| 128
| 396
| 38
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GTX 260M
| March 3, 2009
| G92b
| 55
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 112:56:16
| 550
| 1375
| 1900
| 8.8
| 30.8
| 1024
| 60.8
| GDDR3
| 256
| rowspan="3" | 10.0
| 462
| 65
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GTX 280M
| March 3, 2009
| G92b
| 55
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 128:64:16
| 585
| 1463
| 1900
| 9.36
| 37.44
| 1024
| 60.8
| GDDR3
| 256
| 562
| 75
|
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | GeForce GTX 285M
| February 2010
| G92b
| 55
| PCIe 2.0 x16
| 128:64:16
| 600
| 1500
| 2000
| 9.6
| 38.4
| 1024
| 64.0
| GDDR3
| 256
| 576
| 75
| Higher clocked version of GTX280M with improved memory
|}

== Discontinued support ==

NVIDIA has ceased driver support for GeForce 200 series on April 1, 2016.<ref>[http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473 EOL driver support for legacy products]</ref>

* Windows XP 32-bit & Media Center Edition: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/77225/en-us Download]
* Windows XP 64-bit: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/77226/en-us Download]
* Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112593/en-us Download]
* Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112594/en-us Download]
* Windows 10, 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112595/en-us Download]
* Windows 10, 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; [http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112596/en-us Download]
* Linux, 64-bit: version 340.108 released on December 23, 2019; [https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/156163/en-us Download]

==See also==
* [[Engineering:GeForce 8 series|GeForce 8 series]]
* [[Engineering:GeForce 9 series|GeForce 9 series]]
* [[Engineering:GeForce 100 series|GeForce 100 series]]
* [[Engineering:GeForce 300 series|GeForce 300 series]]
* [[Engineering:GeForce 400 series|GeForce 400 series]]
* [[Engineering:GeForce 500 series|GeForce 500 series]]
* GeForce 600 series
* [[Engineering:GeForce 700 series|GeForce 700 series]]
* GeForce 800M series
* [[Engineering:GeForce 900 series|GeForce 900 series]]
* [[GeForce 10 series]]
* [[Engineering:Nvidia Quadro|Nvidia Quadro]]
* [[Engineering:Nvidia Tesla|Nvidia Tesla]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons|Category:Nvidia GeForce 200 series video cards|GeForce 200 series}}
{{refbegin|4}}
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_295_us.html GeForce GTX 295]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_285_us.html GeForce GTX 285]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_280_us.html GeForce GTX 280]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_275_us.html GeForce GTX 275]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_260_us.html GeForce GTX 260]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250_us.html GeForce GTS 250]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_240_us.html GeForce GTS 240 (OEM)]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_240_us.html GeForce GT 240]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_220_us.html GeForce GT 220]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_210_us.html GeForce 210]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_205_us.html GeForce 205]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161119093939/http://graphicsspecs.com/evga-geforce-gtx-295-drivers/ Geforce gtx 295]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_285m_us.html GeForce GTX 285M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_280m_us.html GeForce GTX 280M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_260m_us.html GeForce GTX 260M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_260m_us.html GeForce GTS 260M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250m_us.html GeForce GTS 250M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_240m_us.html GeForce GT 240M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_230m_us.html GeForce GT 230M]
* [http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_g210m_us.html GeForce G210M]
* [http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-nsight-visual-studio-edition Nvidia Nsight]

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