Xenos and GA106 - video card comparison

Xenos

GA106

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Xenos

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

232 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

3840

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

-

3.0

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

-

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP11