Hawaii and Ellesmere - video card comparison

Hawaii

Ellesmere

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Ellesmere

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

2304

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

2.1

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3