Whistler and M26 - video card comparison

Whistler

M26

Architecture

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

Whistler

M26

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

716 million

120 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0b (9_2)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A