G84 and R600 - video card comparison

G84

R600

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G84

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

289 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

320

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

1.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.3 (full) Shader Model4.04.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

VP2

-