TU106 and GA106 - video card comparison
TU106
GA106
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
TU106
GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
10,800 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
3840
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
7.5
8.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
NVENC
7th Gen
7th Gen
PureVideo HD
VP10
VP11