GeForce 7900 GX2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 7900 GX2 sales 30 April 2006 at a recommended price of $599 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Curie architecture and made with 90 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 312 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 7900 GX2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G71 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 30 April 2006 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $599 |
Technical specs
GeForce 7900 GX2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 7900 GX2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 278 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 12.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 7900 GX2 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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 312 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 7900 GX2: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 38.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7900 GX2. 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 GX2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 7900 GX2 according to our statistics.
