GF116 and M18 - video card comparison

GF116

M18

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

GF116

M18

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

2.1

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

VP4

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