GeForce 100 Series - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The GeForce 100 Series is a family of graphics processing unit

Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit or GPU is a specialized circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display...

s developed by Nvidia

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Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

. The first card of this series was launched in January 2009. Similar to the GeForce 300 series, the GeForce 100 series consists of re-branded video cards from the previous generation available only for OEMs. Current cards include the G 100, GT 120, GT 130, GT 140 and GTS 150. The GT 120 is a based on the 9500 GT with improved thermal designs while the GT 130 is based on the 9600 GSO (which itself was a re-badged 8800 GS). The GT 140 is simply a rebadged 9600 GT. The GTS 150 is an OEM version of the GTS 250 with some slight changes. Despite being based upon previous 9 series cards, the G 100, GT 120, and GT 130 utilize entirely different PCB's and slightly different clock speeds.

Model	Year Year A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic....	Code name Code name A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage...	Fab (nm)	Transistors (Billion)	Die Size (mm ²)	Bus Computer bus In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.Early computer buses were literally parallel electrical wires with multiple connections, but the term is now used for any physical arrangement that provides the same... interface	Memory min (MiB Mebibyte The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220, therefore 1 mebibyte is . The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2000 and has been accepted for use by all major... )	Config core ¹	Reference clock rate			Fillrate Fillrate The term fillrate usually refers to the number of pixels a video card can render and write to video memory in a second. In this case, fillrates are given in megapixels per second or in gigapixels per second , and they are obtained by multiplying the number of raster operations by the clock...		Reference Memory Configuration			Graphics library support (version		GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Prices (As of Oct 2009)
Model			Fab (nm)	Transistors (Billion)	Die Size (mm ²)			Config core ¹	Core (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Shader (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Memory (MHz Hertz The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.... )	Pixel (GP Pixel In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled.... /s)	Texture (GT Texel (graphics) A texel, or texture element is the fundamental unit of texture space, used in computer graphics. Textures are represented by arrays of texels, just as pictures are represented by arrays of pixels.... /s)	Bandwidth (GiB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... /s)	DRAM type	Bus width (bit Bit A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications; it is the amount of information stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in one of two possible distinct states... )	Direct3D Direct3D Direct3D is part of Microsoft's DirectX application programming interface . Direct3D is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems , and for other platforms through the open source software Wine. It is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems...	OpenGL OpenGL OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...	GFLOPS² (MADD+MUL)	TDP (Watts)	Prices (As of Oct 2009)
GeForce G 100	March 10, 2009	G98	65	?	86	PCIe 2.0 x16	512	8:4:4	567	1400	500	4.3	4.3	8	GDDR2	64	10	3.2	~16	40	OEM
GeForce GT 120	March 10, 2009	G96b	55	0.314	121	PCIe 2.0 x16	512	32:16:8	500	1400	500	8	4	16	GDDR2/3	128	10	3.2	130	50	OEM
GeForce GT 130	March 10, 2009	G94b	55	0.505	180	PCIe 2.0 x16	768	48:24:16	500	1250	500	8	12	24	GDDR2	192	10	3.2	254	105	OEM
GeForce GT 140	September 23, 2010	G94b	55	0.505	180	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	64:32:16	650	1625	900	8	12	24	GDDR3	256	10	3.2	312	120	OEM
GeForce GTS 150	March 10, 2009	G92b	55	0.754	230	PCIe 2.0 x16	1024	128:64:16	738	1836	1000	11.8	47.2	64	GDDR3	256	10	3.2	705	150	OEM

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