GeForce 300 series

The GeForce 300 series is a series of Tesla-based graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, first released in November 2009. Its cards are rebrands of the GeForce 200 series cards, available only for OEMs. All GPUs of the series support Direct3D 10.1, except the GT 330 (Direct3D 10.0).

"G300" redirects here. For mobile phone, see Huawei Ascend G300.
GeForce 300 series
Release dateNovember 27, 2009 (November 27, 2009)
CodenameGT21x
ArchitectureTesla
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
Transistors260M 40 nm (GT218)
  • 486M 40 nm (GT216)
  • 727M 40 nm (GT215)
  • 754M 40 nm (GT215-301)
Cards
Entry-level310
315
GT 320
GT 330
Mid-rangeGT 340
API support
Direct3DDirect3D 10.1
Shader Model 4.1
OpenCLOpenCL 1.1
OpenGLOpenGL 3.3
History
PredecessorGeForce 9 series
VariantGeForce 200 series
SuccessorGeForce 400 series
Support status
Unsupported

History

On November 27, 2009, Nvidia released its first GeForce 300 series video card, the GeForce 310. However, this card is a re-brand of one of Nvidia's older models (the GeForce 210) and not based on the newer Fermi architecture.[1]

On February 2, 2010, Nvidia announced the release of the GeForce GT 320, GT 330 and GT 340, available to OEMs only.[2] The Geforce GT 340 is simply a rebadged GT 240, sharing exactly the same specifications, while the GT 320 and 330 were newer cards (albeit still based on the previous generation GT200b and G92b architecture).[2]

Chipset table
Model Launch Code name Fab (nm) Transistors (million) Die size (mm2) Bus interface Core config[lower-alpha 1] Clock rate Fillrate Memory configuration Processing power (GFLOPS)[lower-alpha 2] TDP (Watts) Comments
Core (MHz) Shader (MHz) Memory (MHz) Pixel (GP/s) Texture (GT/s) Size (MB) Bandwidth (GB/s) DRAM type Bus width (bit) Single precision
GeForce 310 November 27, 2009 GT218 TSMC 40 nm 260 57 PCIe 2.0 x16 16:8:4 589 1402 1000 2.356 4.712 512 8 DDR2 64 44.8 30.5 OEM Card, similar to Geforce 210
GeForce 315 February 2010 GT216 486 100 48:16:4 475 1100 1580 3.8 7.6 512 12.6 DDR3 105.6 33 OEM Card, similar to Geforce GT220
GeForce GT 320 GT215 727 144 72:24:8 540 1302 4.32 12.96 1024 25.3 GDDR3 128 187.5 43 OEM Card
GeForce GT 330[3] GT215-301-A3[4] 96:32:8 550 1350 4.40 17.60 512 32.00 128 257.3 75 Specifications vary depending on OEM, similar to GT230 v2.
G92[5] 500 1250 4.000 24.00 256 51.20 256 240.0
G92B[6] 96:32:16 8.000 1024 16.32 DDR2 128
GeForce GT 340 GT215 96:32:8 550 1340 3400 512
1024		 54.4 GDDR5[7] 128 257.3 69 OEM Card, similar to GT240
  1. Unified shaders: texture mapping units: render output units
  2. To calculate the processing power see Tesla (microarchitecture)#Performance.

Discontinued support

NVIDIA ceased driver support for the GeForce 300 series on April 1, 2016.[8]

  • Windows XP 32-bit & Media Center Edition: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; Download
  • Windows XP 64-bit: version 340.52 released on July 29, 2014; Download
  • Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
  • Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
  • Windows 10, 32-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download
  • Windows 10, 64-bit: version 342.01 (WHQL) released on December 14, 2016; Download

See also

References
  1. "NVIDIA kicks off GeForce 300-series range with GeForce 310". November 27, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  2. NVIDIA Launches GeForce GT 340, GT 330 and GT 320 - Softpedia News, February 22, 2010.
  3. "Nvidia GeForce GT 330 OEM | techPowerUp GPU Database". Techpowerup.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  4. "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  5. "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  6. "NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM Specs". TechPowerUp. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  7. "GeForce GT 340 OEM | GeForce". Nvidia.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  8. "EOL Windows driver support for legacy products". Retrieved March 17, 2016.
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