GK104 and GF104 - video card comparison

GK104

GF104

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GK104

GF104

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

1,950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

384

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

3.0

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.175

N/A

NVENC

1st Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP5

VP4