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