GeForce Go 7900 GS: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce Go 7900 GS sales 18 April 2006. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce Go 7900 GS: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G71 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 18 April 2006 (18 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce Go 7900 GS's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce Go 7900 GS's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 27 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 375 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 375 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 278 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.500 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 20 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce Go 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).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | MXM-II |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce Go 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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce Go 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce Go 7900 GS, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce Go 7900 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
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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