NV38 and M18 - video card comparison

NV38

M18

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

NV38

M18

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

135 million

160 million

DirectX

9.0a

9.0b (9_2)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (full) Vulkan

N/AN/A