M72 and NV38 - video card comparison

M72

NV38

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

M72

NV38

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

180 million

135 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

40

-

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

9.0a

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

1.5 (full) Shader Model4.0-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A