GF106 and GM108S - video card comparison
GF106
GM108S
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GF106
GM108S
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
384
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
5.0
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
NVENC
-
No Support
PureVideo HD
VP4
VP6