GM204 and M72 - video card comparison

GM204

M72

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GM204

M72

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

180 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

40

DirectX

12 (12_1)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

5.2

-

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

4.0

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

NVENC

5th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP6

-