GeForce 7900 GTO vs Radeon Pro WX 5100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking360not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.06no data
Power efficiency13.30no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameEllesmereG71
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 November 2016 (7 years ago)1 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

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 cores1792no data
Core clock speed713 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed1086 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million278 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt81 Watt
Texture fill rate121.615.60
Floating-point processing power3.892 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs11224

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz660 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s42.24 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.43.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2016 1 October 2006
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 81 Watt

Pro WX 5100 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 5100 and GeForce 7900 GTO. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 5100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 7900 GTO is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100
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