NV38 and M12 - video card comparison

NV38

M12

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

R300

GPU code name

NV38

M12

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

135 million

76 million

DirectX

9.0a

9.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (full) Vulkan

N/AN/A