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Maxwell Architecture

Maxwell is NVIDIA's next-generation architecture for CUDA compute applications. Maxwell introduces an all-new design for the Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) that dramatically improves energy efficiency. Improvements to control logic partitioning, workload balancing, clock-gating granularity, compiler-based scheduling, number of instructions issued per clock cycle, and many other enhancements allow the Maxwell SM (also called SMM) to far exceed Kepler SMX efficiency.

Maxwell retains and extends the same CUDA programming model as in previous NVIDIA architectures such as Fermi and Kepler, and applications that follow the best practices for those architectures should typically see speedups on the Maxwell architecture without any code changes.

The following documents provide more details about programming and tuning code for Maxwell GPUs.

Maxwell: The Most Advanced CUDA GPU Ever Made | Technical Blog

5 Things You Should Know About the New Maxwell GPU Architecture | Technical Blog

Maxwell Compatibility Guide  (This requires membership of our CUDA Registered Developer Program)

Maxwell Tuning Guide (This requires membership of our CUDA Registered Developer Program)

Maxwell Architecture Related Blogs | NVIDIA.COM

Maxwell articles on GeForce | GEFORCE.COM

Maxwell Architecture for Gaming | GEFORCE.COM (link coming soon)

GeForce Gaming Graphics Cards and Notebook GPUs with Maxwell Architecture:

First generation Maxwell

Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 750Ti

GeForce GTX 750

Integrated Notebook GPUs

GeForce GTX 960M

GeForce GTX 950M

Second generation Maxwell

Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX TITAN X

GeForce GTX 980

GeForce GTX 980Ti

GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTX 960

Integrated Notebook GPUs

GeForce GTX 980M

GeForce GTX 970M

GeForce GTX 965M

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