R600 and GA102 - video card comparison

R600

GA102

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R600

GA102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

10752

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.06.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

-

VP11