The microarchitecture of the GeForce 10 series is named Pascal, after the 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, and was presented on the 6th May 2016.[3] Nvidia has announced that the Pascal GPU will feature four High Bandwidth Memory stacks, allowing a total of 16GB HBM2 on the highest-end consumer models,[4] 16 nm technology,[2] Unified Memory and NVLink.[5] New Features in GP10x : CUDA Compute Capability 6.0(GP100 only), 6.1(GP104) DisplayPort 1.4 HDMI 2.0b Fourth generation Delta Color Compression Half precision FP16 operations executed at twice the rate of FP32 (GP100 only), while FP64 operations run at 1/2 (GP100 only) or 1/32 (all others) the speed[6] PureVideo Feature Set G hardware video decoding HEVC Main10(10bit), Main12(12bit) & VP9 hardware decoding(GM200 & GM204 did not support HEVC Main10/Main12 & VP9 hardware decoding)[7] HDCP 2.2 support for 4K DRM protected content playback & streaming(Maxwell GM200 & GM204 lack HDCP 2.2 support, GM206 supports HDCP 2.2)[8] NVENC HEVC Main10 10bit hardware encoding GPU Boost 3.0 Simultaneous Multi-Projection HB SLI Bridge Technology New memory controller with GDDR5X & GDDR5 support