GeForce 7900 GTX: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce 7900 GTX provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.88% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

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

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1159
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.84of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentDesktop
Release date9 March 2006 (19 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 7900 GTX's specs 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 speed650 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors278 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)84 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate15.60of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs24of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 7900 GTX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 7900 GTX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

7900 GTX
0.88

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

7900 GTX 387
Samples: 90

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.

Closest competitors

GeForce 7900 GTX's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon E4690 104.55
GeForce 7900 GTX 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 7900 GTX is Radeon HD 5550, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 7900 GTX:

Radeon E4690 104.55
GeForce 7900 GTX 100

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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