R700 and NV15 A5 - video card comparison

R700

NV15 A5

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

R700

NV15 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

25 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

-

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

7.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A