GM204 and M4 - video card comparison

GM204

M4

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Rage 4 (1998−1999)

GPU code name

GM204

M4

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

8 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

6.0

CUDA

5.2

-

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

-

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

NVENC

5th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP6

-