TU106 and GA100 - video card comparison

TU106

GA100

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU106

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

10,800 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

8192

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

7.5

8.0

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

NVENC

7th Gen

No Support

PureVideo HD

VP10

VP10