TU116 and GP106 - video card comparison
TU116
GP106
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
TU116
GP106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
7.5
6.1
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
NVENC
7th Gen
6th Gen
PureVideo HD
VP10
VP8