GP100 and M3 - video card comparison

GP100

M3

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Rage 4 (1998−1999)

GPU code name

GP100

M3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

15,300 million

8 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

6.0

CUDA

6.0

-

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Shader Model

6.0

-

Vulkan

1.3

N/A

NVENC

6th Gen

-

PureVideo HD

VP8

-