| RTX 40 Series | RTX 30 Series | RTX 20 Series | GTX 16 Series | GTX 10 Series | GTX 900 Series | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Architecture | Architecture Name | Ada Lovelace | Ampere | Turing | Turing | Pascal | Maxwell |
| Streaming Multiprocessors | 2x FP32 | 2x FP32 | 1x FP32 | 1x FP32 | 1x FP32 | 1x FP32 | |
| Ray Tracing Cores | Gen 3 | Gen 2 | Gen 1 | – | – | – | |
| Tensor Cores (AI) | Gen 4 | Gen 3 | Gen 2 | – | – | – | |
| Platform | NVIDIA DLSS | DLSS 3 (Super Resolution + Frame Generation) | DLSS 2 (Super Resolution) | DLSS 2 (Super Resolution) | – | – | – |
| NVIDIA Reflex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Broadcast | Yes | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | |
| NVIDIA GeForce Experience | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Game Ready Drivers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Studio Drivers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | – | |
| NVIDIA ShadowPlay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Highlights | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Ansel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Freestyle | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| VR Ready | Yes | Yes | Yes | GTX 1650 Super or higher | GTX 1060 or higher | GTX 970 or higher | |
| NVIDIA Omniverse | Yes | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | |
| Additional Features | PCIe | Gen 4 | Gen 4 | Gen 3 | Gen 3 | Gen 3 | Gen 3 |
| NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) | Gen 8 | Gen 7 | Gen 7 | Gen 6 | Gen 6 | Gen 5 | |
| NVIDIA Decoder (NVDEC) | Gen 5 | Gen 5 | Gen 4 | Gen 4 | Gen 3 | Gen 2 | |
| AV1 Encode | Yes | – | – | – | – | – | |
| AV1 Decode | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | – | |
| CUDA Capability | 8.9 | 8.6 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 6.1 | 5.2 | |
| DX12 Ultimate | Yes | Yes | Yes | – | – | – |
