GeForce 7900 GS: specs and benchmarks

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GeForce 7900 GS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.66% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 7900 GS sales 1 May 2006 at a recommended price of $259 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.66 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 42.24 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 198 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 49 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 7900 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1188
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01
Power efficiency0.92of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentDesktop
Release date1 May 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$259 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce 7900 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 7900 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed450 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors278 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)49 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate9.000of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs20of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 7900 GS and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length198 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 7900 GS: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed660 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7900 GS. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 7900 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 7900 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

7900 GS 0.66

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 7900 GS is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce 7900 GS's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 7900 GS is Radeon HD 8280, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 7900 GS:

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