GeForce GTX 980 Whitepaper 
 
 
 
 
Table of Contents 
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 
Extraordinary Gaming Performance for the Latest Displays .................................................................... 3 
Incredible Energy Efficiency ...................................................................................................................... 4 
Dramatic Leap Forward In Lighting with VXGI .......................................................................................... 5 
GM204 Hardware Architecture In-Depth ..................................................................................................... 6 
Maxwell Streaming Multiprocessor .......................................................................................................... 8 
PolyMorph Engine 3.0 ............................................................................................................................... 9 
GM204 Memory Subsystem ................................................................................................................... 10 
New Display and Video Engines .............................................................................................................. 11 
Maxwell: Enabling The Next Frontier in PC Graphics ................................................................................. 13 
Hardware Acceleration for VXGI – Multi-Projection and Conservative Raster ...................................... 21 
Tiled Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 23 
Raster Ordered View ............................................................................................................................... 24 
DirectX 12 ................................................................................................................................................ 25 
Advancing the State-Of-The-Art in Image Quality ...................................................................................... 27 
Dynamic Super Resolution ...................................................................................................................... 29 
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 31 
LEGAL NOTICE ............................................................................................................................................. 32