Polaris 21 and M12 - video card comparison

Polaris 21

M12

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

R300

GPU code name

Polaris 21

M12

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

76 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

Shader Model

6.7

-

Vulkan

1.3

N/A