M12 and NV17 A5 - video card comparison
M12
NV17 A5
Architecture
R300
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
M12
NV17 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
76 million
29 million
DirectX
9.0
8.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
N/A