GK208B and M56 - video card comparison

GK208B

M56

Architecture

Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)

Ultra-Threaded SE

GPU code name

GK208B

M56

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,020 million

157 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

3.5

-

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.175

N/A

NVENC

No Support

-

PureVideo HD

VP5

-