GP106 and TU117 - video card comparison
GP106
TU117
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GP106
TU117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,400 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
7.5
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
NVENC
6th Gen
6th Gen
PureVideo HD
VP8
VP10