R480 and GA106 - video card comparison

R480

GA106

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R480

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

160 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

3840

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP11