GeForce RTX 4090 vs Go 7950 GTX SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.82
Power efficiencyno data15.23
ArchitectureG7x (2005−2006)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG71MAD102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 October 2006 (18 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,599

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 cores6416384
Core clock speed16 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed575 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors556 Million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,290
Floating-point processing powerno data82.58 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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 data304 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2x512 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 TB/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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2006 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 450 Watt

Go 7950 GTX SLI has 400% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4090 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI
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