AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated18
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data18.51
ArchitectureG7x (2005−2007)Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameG71MNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2006 (17 years old)8 December 2020 (3 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999
Current priceno data$957 (1x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data5120
Core clock speed14 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed375 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors556 Million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data720.0

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI and Radeon RX 6900 XT compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type256GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width500 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMIno data+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkanno data1.2

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 June 2006 8 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 300 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI and Radeon RX 6900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6900 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI
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