RS880 and NV42 - video card comparison

RS880

NV42

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

RS880

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

181 million

198 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

40

-

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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