M56 and NV43 A2 - video card comparison

M56

NV43 A2

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

M56

NV43 A2

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

157 million

146 million

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP1