NX-SoC vs GeForce 7900 GS AGP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameG71GM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2 April 2006 (18 years ago)17 March 2017 (7 years ago)

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 coresno data256
Core clock speed450 MHz384 MHz
Boost clock speedno data768 MHz
Number of transistors278 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate9.00012.29
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3932 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2016

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR4
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth42.24 GB/s25.6 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2006 17 March 2017
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 20 nm

NX-SoC has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 7900 GS AGP and NX-SoC. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 7900 GS AGP is a desktop card while NX-SoC is a notebook one.


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