GK106 and GK208 - video card comparison
GK106
GK208
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
GK106
GK208
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
1,020 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
3.5
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.2.175
NVENC
1st Gen
No Support
PureVideo HD
VP5
VP5