Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated23
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data29.88
Power efficiencyno data15.86
ArchitectureG7x (2005−2006)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameG71MNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2006 (18 years ago)28 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores545120
Core clock speed14 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed375 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors556 Million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data720.0
Floating-point processing powerno data23.04 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2006 28 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 300 Watt

Go 7900 GS SLI has 650% lower power consumption.

RX 6900 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI and Radeon RX 6900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6900 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI
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