M18 and NV17 A5 - video card comparison

M18

NV17 A5

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

M18

NV17 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

160 million

29 million

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

8.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

N/A