GeForce Go 7800: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce Go 7800 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.30% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce Go 7800 sales 3 March 2006. This is a Curie architecture notebook card based on 110 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.55 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 35.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce Go 7800: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1333
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.59of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG70
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 March 2006 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce Go 7800's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce Go 7800's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores22of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed400 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed400 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors302 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology110 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate6.400of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs16of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce Go 7800 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).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce Go 7800: 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 speed550 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth35.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce Go 7800. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce Go 7800, 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 Go 7800. 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.

Go 7800 0.30

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.

Go 7800 114

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce Go 7800 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

Closest competitors

GeForce Go 7800's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce Go 7800 is Radeon HD 7290, which is slower by 3% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.

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