GeForce

GeForce

Top: Logo since 2022 Bottom: The most recent flagship model, the GeForce RTX 4090, in the Founders Edition in its retail box
Release date	August 31, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-08-31)
Manufactured by	Nvidia Samsung Electronics TSMC
Designed by	Nvidia
Marketed by	Nvidia
Models	GeForce 256 GeForce 2 series GeForce 3 series GeForce 4 series GeForce FX series GeForce 6 series GeForce 7 series GeForce 8 series GeForce 9 series GeForce 100 series GeForce 200 series GeForce 300 series GeForce 400 series GeForce 500 series GeForce 600 series GeForce 700 series GeForce 800 series GeForce 900 series GeForce 10 series GeForce 16 series GeForce 20 series GeForce 30 series GeForce 40 series
Cores	Up to 16,384 CUDA cores
Fabrication process	220 nm to 3 nm
History
Predecessor	RIVA TNT2
Variant	Nvidia Quadro, Nvidia Tesla

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia and marketed for the performance market. As of the GeForce 40 series, there have been eighteen iterations of the design. The first GeForce products were discrete GPUs designed for add-on graphics boards, intended for the high-margin PC gaming market, and later diversification of the product line covered all tiers of the PC graphics market, ranging from cost-sensitive^[1] GPUs integrated on motherboards, to mainstream add-in retail boards. Most recently,^[when?] GeForce technology has been introduced into Nvidia's line of embedded application processors, designed for electronic handhelds and mobile handsets.

With respect to discrete GPUs, found in add-in graphics-boards, Nvidia's GeForce and AMD's Radeon GPUs are the only remaining competitors in the high-end market. GeForce GPUs are very dominant in the general-purpose graphics processor unit (GPGPU) market thanks to their proprietary Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).^[2] GPGPU is expected to expand GPU functionality beyond the traditional rasterization of 3D graphics, to turn it into a high-performance computing device able to execute arbitrary programming code in the same way a CPU does, but with different strengths (highly parallel execution of straightforward calculations) and weaknesses (worse performance for complex branching code).