GeForce Go 7900 GS: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce Go 7900 GS provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.40% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce Go 7900 GS sales 18 April 2006. This is a Curie architecture notebook card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-II interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1297
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.61of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentLaptop
Release date18 April 2006 (19 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores27of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed375 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed375 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
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)20 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate7.500of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs20of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce Go 7900 GS 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).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfaceMXM-II

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce Go 7900 GS: 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 speed500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce Go 7900 GS. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce Go 7900 GS, 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 Go 7900 GS. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Go 7900 GS
0.40

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.

Go 7900 GS Samples: 58 177

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce Go 7900 GS 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
Valorant 27−30

Full HD
High Preset

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 14−16
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Dota 2 10−11
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
Metro Exodus 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Valorant 27−30

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Dota 2 10−11
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Valorant 27−30

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 2−3
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 1−2
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 4−5

1440p
Ultra Preset

Forza Horizon 4 2−3
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 0−1

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 0−1

4K
High Preset

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
Valorant 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 2−3

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 2−3

Closest competitors

GeForce Go 7900 GS's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce Go 7900 GS is Mobility Radeon HD 3670, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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