R600 and NV36 - video card comparison

R600

NV36

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

R600

NV36

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

720 million

82 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

-

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

9.0a

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.0-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A