GF106 and M72 - video card comparison

GF106

M72

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GF106

M72

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

180 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

40

DirectX

12 (11_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

2.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

VP4

-