GM204 and R420 - video card comparison

GM204

R420

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

GM204

R420

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0b (9_2)

CUDA

5.2

-

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

-

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

NVENC

5th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP6

-