GV100 and GA100 - video card comparison
GV100
GA100
Architecture
Volta (2017−2020)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GV100
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
21,100 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
8192
DirectX
12 (12_1)
N/A
CUDA
7.0
8.0
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
NVENC
6th Gen
No Support
PureVideo HD
VP9
VP10