In this part, we will get acquainted with Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell cards and finally with the latest Nvidia architecture, i.e. Pascal. In the first part , we first got to know the history of Nvidia briefly and introduced the first products of this company and the first cards of the GeForce series. Then, in the second part, we learned about Tesla’s famous architecture and GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 series cards
G92B: GeForce 100 series cards
After the development of the 9000 series ended, Nvidia introduced the GeForce 100 series cards and left their production entirely to OEMs; This means that the 100 series cards were only used in pre-prepared devices and users were not able to find these cards individually in the market. All the 100 series products were actually the same 9000 series GPUs with a slightly improved clock speed and were sold under the new GeForce 100 brand.
GT200: GeForce 200 series and the introduction of Tesla 2.0
Nvidia introduced its GT200 cores based on Tesla’s improved architecture in 2008. While the G92 cores used 8 texture cluster processors (TCP) and 16 ROPs, the GT200 uses 10 TCPs and 32 ROPs. The width of the GDDR3 memory bus was also increased from 256 to 512 bits in the new cores. GT200 was first used in the GeForce GTX 280 card, which was significantly faster than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ card. Although the GTX 280 couldn’t beat the GeForce 9800 GX2 in terms of performance, since the 9800 GX2 had a significantly higher power consumption And while using less memory, the GTX 280 was considered a superior graphics card by comparison. The introduction of the GeForce GTX 295 graphics card using two GT200 cores in 2009 also brought the obvious and significant superiority of the 200 series and was the final nail in the coffin of the 9000 series cards.
GT215: GeForce 300 series cards
The GeForce 300 series, like the 100 series, was only for OEMs, and users could not buy separate cards of this series in the market. This series was completely based on mid-range and low-end GeForce 200 series cards and used the 40nm Tesla 2.0 architecture. GF100: GeForce 400 series and Fermi entry Tesla was finally replaced in 2010 by Nvidia’s new architecture called Fermi. The largest chip formed was called the GF100 and was used in the GeForce GTX 480 card, the first flagship of the 400 series. The GTX 480 used 480 CUDA cores and 15 polymorph engines. The area of the GF100 chip was very large (529 square mm) due to the many resources used in it. The GTX 480 was also notorious for its high operating temperature problem To overcome the high temperature problem, Nvidia and its hardware partners resorted to using powerful and noisy cooling systems in this graphics card, which made the GTX 480 one of the loudest graphics cards in recent years
istory of AMD/ATI graphics cards (part one)
Studying the history of AMD/ATI graphics cards can be very useful for getting familiar with GPU technology. ATI entered the graphics card market in 1986 and continued its independent activity in this field until 2006. Even after being bought by AMD, products developed by the company were still sold under the ATI brand for several years. After years of ups and downs, AMD is determined to once again open and strengthen its foothold in the graphics market. Next, we’ll take a look at the best ATI (and then AMD) cards that spawned one of the most exciting and brutal hardware rivalries in history. Our main focus in this article will be more on flagship graphics cards; However, we will also mention the revolutionary low-end models. Also, the simultaneous use of two or more graphics cards (CrossFire technology) will not be mentioned much.
AND WONDER (1986)
ATI produced several models of the Wonder family of graphics cards between 1986 and the early 1990s. All these cards were very simple and basic and were designed in such a way that they could only handle simple tasks such as text rendering and basic 2D images. One of the notable models of the Wonder family is the VGA Stereo-F/X, in which the 2D graphics processing engine and the Sound Blaster sound processor were integrated on one card.
ATI Mach 8 (1990) ATI continued to improve its 2D processing technology and reached its peak in the Mach series of graphics. The first card of this series was called Mac 8, which introduced advanced 2D features along with it.
ATI Mach 32 (1992) ATI later merged the performance of its Wonder and Mac series products. The Mac 32 card was considered the first card with the features of both series
