GeForce 500 series

A refresh of the Fermi based GeForce 400 series, the GeForce 500 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, first released on November 9, 2010 with the GeForce GTX 580.

For GeForce cards with a model number of 5XX0, see GeForce FX series.
For AMD's RX-500 GPUs, see RX 500.
GeForce 500 Series
The GeForce GTX 590 released in 2010 is the series' flagship unit, sporting dual Fermi GF110 chips.
Release dateNovember 9, 2010 (November 9, 2010)
CodenameGF11x
ArchitectureFermi
ModelsGeForce series
  • GeForce GT series
  • GeForce GTX series
Transistors292M 40 nm (GF119)
  • 585M 40 nm (GF108)
  • 1.170M 40 nm (GF116)
  • 1.950M 40 nm (GF114)
  • 3.000M 40 nm (GF110)
Cards
Entry-levelGT 505
GT 510
GT 520
GT 530
Mid-rangeGT 545
GTX 550 Ti
GTX 560
GTX 560 Ti
GTX 560-448 Ti
High-endGTX 570
GTX 580
EnthusiastGTX 590
API support
DirectXDirect3D 11.0 (feature level 11_0)
Shader Model 5.1
OpenCLOpenCL 1.1
OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
History
PredecessorGeForce 400 series
SuccessorGeForce 600 series
Support status
Unsupported

Its direct competitor was AMD's Radeon HD 6000 Series; they were launched approximately a month apart.

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