NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 7900 GTX sales 9 March 2006. This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 84 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 7900 GTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating	1013
Value for money	0.01
Architecture	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	G71
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	9 March 2006 (17 years old)
Current price	$228	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

GeForce 7900 GTX's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 7900 GTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	650 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	278 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)	84 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	15.60	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on GeForce 7900 GTX's 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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 7900 GTX: 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7900 GTX. 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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 7900 GTX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	3.0
OpenGL	2.1	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 7900 GTX. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 7900 GTX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

GeForce 7900 GTX's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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