NV42 and R430 - video card comparison

NV42

R430

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

NV42

R430

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

110 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

198 million

160 million

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

9.0b (9_2)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.0 (full) Shader Model

3.0-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

VP1

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