In most cases, when using a video card, there are no problems with the search and installation of the necessary software. It either comes together with the device, or is installed at all automatically using the Device Manager.
Difficulties begin when we are forced to search for drivers yourself. Not all manufacturers understand the aspirations of users and often put us in an impasse of incomprehensible terms and names of the parameters. This article will help to figure out how to find out the NVIDIA video card product.
NVIDIA video card series
On the official site of NVIDIA, in the manual search driver section, we see the drop-down list in which you need to choose a series (generation) of products.
It is at this stage that the difficulties arise from newbies, as this information is clearly not present anywhere. We will analyze in detail how to determine which generation is the video card, which is installed in your computer.
Definition of the model
First you need to find out the video adapter model, for which you can use both Windows system tools and third-party programs, for example, GPU-Z.See also: View video card model in Windows 10
After we have identified, what a video card is in our computer, will not work to know its generation. Let's go through the number of the series, starting with the most modern.
20 series
The twentieth series of video cards is built on chips with architecture Turing. At the time of updating this material (see Date), the ruler consists of the following adapters: RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080, RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2080Ti, Titan RTX.
10 series
The tenth series of products includes graphic adapters on the Pascal architecture. This includes GT 1030, GTX 1050 - 1080Ti. This includes NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) and NVIDIA Titan XP.
900 Series
The nine-day series includes a ruler of the previous generation of Maxwell. This GTX 950 - 980Ti, as well as GTX Titan X.
700 Series
This includes adapters on Kepler chips. From this generation (if you look from top to bottom) begins the variety of models. These are office GT 705 - 740 (5 models), game GTX 745 - 780Ti (8 models) and three GTX Titan, Titan Z, Titan Black.
600 Series
Also a rather prolific "family" titled Kepler. This is GeForce 605, GT 610 - 645, GTX 645 - 690.
500 Series
This is video cards on the Fermi architecture. The model range consists of GeForce 510, GT 520 - 545 and GTX 550TI - 590.
400 Series
The graphics processors of the four hundred line are also based on Fermi chips and are represented by such video cards as GeForce 405, GT 420 - 440, GTS 450 and GTX 460 - 480.
300 Series
The architecture of this series is called Tesla, its models: GeForce 310 and 315, GT 320 - 340.
200 series
These GPUs also have the name Tesla. Maps included in the ruler, such as: GeForce 205 and 210, G210, GT 220 - 240, GTS 240 and 250, GTX 260 - 295.
100 series
A hundreds of NVIDIA video card series is still built on Tesla microarchitecture and includes adapters G100, GT 120 - 140, GTS 150.
Series 9.
The ninth generation of GEFORCE graphics processors is based on the G80 and G92 chips. The model range is divided into five groups: 9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800. Differences in the names consists only in adding a liter, characterizing the purpose and internal filling of the device. For example, GeForce 9800 GTX +.
8 series
In this ruler, the same G80 chips are used, and the assortment of cards is appropriate: 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 8,500, 8600, 8800. After the numbers are the letter notation: GeForce 8800 GTX.
7 series
The seventh series, built on processors G70 and G72, has a GeForce 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7,900, and 7950 video cards with various literals.
6 series
The generation of "green" cards under number 6 works on the NV40 architecture and includes adapters of the GeForce 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800 and modifications.
5 FX.
The 5 FX ruler is based on NV30 and NV35 microchips. The composition of the models is: FX 5200, 5500, PCX 5300, GeForce FX 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950, executed in different versions of the configuration.
Models of video cards with a literary m
All video cards that have the letter "M" at the end of the title are modifications of the GPU for mobile devices (laptops). This includes: 900m, 800m, 700m, 600m, 500m, 400m, 300m, 200m, 100m, 9m, 8m. For example, the GeForce 780M card refers to the seventh series.
On this, our brief excursion for generations and models of graphic adapters NVIDIA is over.