and - video card comparison
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
RV530
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2007
May 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
157 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
41 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.000
118.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
780 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.48 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.0
4.5
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
+
VR Ready
-
+