RS780 and NV42 - video card comparison
RS780
NV42
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RS780
NV42
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
-
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
180 million
198 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
-
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.0
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0 (full)
Shader Model4.13.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
PureVideo HD
-
VP1