NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT: specs and benchmarks

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NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
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  • Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
  • Core clock speed 550 MHz
  • Max video memory 512 MB
  • Memory type GDDR3
  • Memory clock speed 1400 MHz
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2006
Performance 0.87

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 7950 GT sales 6 August 2006 at a recommended price of $114.95. 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 1.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 44.8 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 65 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

0.87%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 7950 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating1032
Value for money0.01
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentDesktop
Release date6 August 2006 (16 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$114.95
Current price$219 (1.9x MSRP)of 49999 (A100 SXM4)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

GeForce 7950 GT's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 7950 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed550 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors278 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)65 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate13.20of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on GeForce 7950 GT'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).

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

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 7950 GT: 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1400 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth44.8 GB/sof 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7950 GT. 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 support

APIs supported by GeForce 7950 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 7950 GT. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.


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.

7950 GT 0.87
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Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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.

Benchmark coverage: 24%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce 7950 GT 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 7950 GT's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest equivalent to GeForce 7950 GT by AMD is Radeon HD 8310E, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 7950 GT:

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