GP100 and Xenos - video card comparison

GP100

Xenos

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GP100

Xenos

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

15,300 million

232 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

240

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

6.0

-

OpenCL

3.0

-

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.0

-

Vulkan

1.3

-

NVENC

6th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP8

-