R600 and NV11 B3 - video card comparison

R600

NV11 B3

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

R600

NV11 B3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

20 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

-

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

7.0

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.0-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A