GP106 and GM204 - video card comparison
GP106
GM204
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GP106
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
5.2
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
NVENC
6th Gen
5th Gen
PureVideo HD
VP8
VP6