NVIDIA TU106
NVIDIA's TU106 GPU uses the Turing architecture and is made using a 12 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 445 mm² and a transistor count of 10,800 million it is a very big chip. TU106 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (Feature Level 12_2). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 1.2 and CUDA 7.5 can be used. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. It features 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs. Also included are 288 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The GPU also contains 36 raytracing acceleration cores.
Further reading:
Turing Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor
- GPU Name
- TU106
- Codename
- NV166
- Architecture
- Turing
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Process Size
- 12 nm
- Transistors
- 10,800 million
- Density
- 24.3M / mm²
- Die Size
- 445 mm²
- Released
- Oct 17th, 2018
Graphics Features
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- CUDA
- 7.5
- Shader Model
- 6.5
- PureVideo HD
- VP10
- VDPAU
- Feature Set J
Render Config
- Shading Units
- 2304
- TMUs
- 144
- ROPs
- 64
- SM Count
- 36
- FP16 Units
- 4608
- FP64 Units
- 72
- Tensor Cores
- 288
- RT Cores
- 36
- SFUs
- 576
- TPCs
- 18
- GPCs
- 3
- Tex L1 Cache
- 32 KB per SM
- L1 Cache
- 64 KB per SM
- L2 Cache
- 4096 KB
- Max. TDP
- 185 W
All Turing GPUs
NVIDIA GPU Architecture History
- 1998-2000 Fahrenheit
- 1999-2005 Celsius
- 2001-2003 Kelvin
- 2003-2005 Rankine
- 2003-2013 Curie
- 2006-2010 Tesla
- 2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
- 2010-2016 Fermi
- 2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
- 2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
- 2012-2018 Kepler
- 2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
- 2014-2017 Maxwell
- 2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
- 2016-2021 Pascal
- 2017-2020 Volta
- 2018-2021 Turing
- 2020-2021 Ampere
Graphics cards using the NVIDIA TU106 GPU
Name | Chip | Memory | Shaders | TMUs | ROPs | Base Clock | Boost Clock | Memory Clock |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
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TU106-400A-A1 | 8 GB | 2304 | 144 | 64 | 1410 MHz | 1620 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
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TU106-200A-KA-A1 | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 48 | 1365 MHz | 1680 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
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N18E-G1-KD-A1 | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 48 | 960 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
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N18E-G2-A1 | 8 GB | 2304 | 144 | 64 | 1215 MHz | 1440 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
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N18E-G2-A1 | 8 GB | 2304 | 144 | 64 | 885 MHz | 1185 MHz | 1500 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile
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N19E-Q1-KA-K1 | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 64 | 945 MHz | 1380 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 64 | 600 MHz | 1215 MHz | 1500 MHz | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
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TU106-410-A1 | 8 GB | 2176 | 136 | 64 | 1470 MHz | 1650 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q | N18E-G1 | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 48 | 975 MHz | 1185 MHz | 1375 MHz |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU106
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TU106-125-A1 | 4 GB | 896 | 56 | 32 | 1410 MHz | 1590 MHz | 1500 MHz |
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh | N19E-Q1-KD-A1 | 6 GB | 1920 | 120 | 64 | 945 MHz | 1380 MHz | 1750 MHz |
NVIDIA CMP 40HX | TU106-100-A1 | 8 GB | 2304 | 144 | 64 | 1410 MHz | 1590 MHz | 1750 MHz |