M97 and NV34 A1 - video card comparison

M97

NV34 A1

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

M97

NV34 A1

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

826 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

-

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

9.0a

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A