Topaz and G73 - video card comparison

Topaz

G73

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Topaz

G73

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,550 million

177 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

6.5

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP1