page_title: GeForce 700 series
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: GeForce 700 series / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: The PCB of an Nvidia GTX 780 with the heatsink removed.
context_page_description: The GeForce 700 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia. While mainly a refresh of the Kepler microarchitecture, some cards use Fermi and later cards use Maxwell. GeForce 700 series cards were first released in 2013, starting with the release of the GeForce GTX Titan on February 19, 2013, followed by the GeForce GTX 780 on May 23, 2013. The first mobile GeForce 700 series chips were released in April 2013.
context_section_description: The GeForce 700 Series contains features from both GK104 and GK110. Kepler based members of the 700 series add the following standard features to the GeForce family.
  Derived from GK104 :
  PCI Express 3.0 interface
  DisplayPort 1.2
  HDMI 1.4a 4K x 2K video output
  Purevideo VP5 hardware video acceleration (up to 4K x 2K H.264 decode)
  Hardware H.264 encoding acceleration block (NVENC)
  Support for up to 4 independent 2D displays, or 3 stereoscopic/3D displays (NV Surround)
  Bindless Textures
  GPU Boost
  TXAA
  Manufactured by TSMC on a 28 nm process
  New Features from GK110 :
  Compute Focus SMX Improvement
  CUDA Compute Capability 3.5
  New Shuffle Instructions
  Dynamic Parallelism
  Hyper-Q (Hyper-Q's MPI functionality reserve for Tesla only)
  Grid Management Unit
  NVIDIA GPUDirect (GPU Direct's RDMA functionality reserve for Tesla & Quadro only)
caption: The PCB of a GTX 780
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