RS600 and NV42 - video card comparison

RS600

NV42

Architecture

R400 (2004−2008)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

RS600

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

120 million

198 million

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.0

2.0 (full) Shader Model-3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP1