Polaris 20 and TU116 - video card comparison

Polaris 20

TU116

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

TU116

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

6,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

1536

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.7

Vulkan

1.3

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP10