RS780 and GA106 - video card comparison

RS780

GA106

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RS780

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

180 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

40

3840

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.0

3.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP11