GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile vs Go 7900 GTX SLI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated27
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.26
ArchitectureG7x (2005−2006)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG71MAD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 October 2006 (18 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores647424
Core clock speed16 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speed500 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors556 Million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rateno data386.3
Floating-point processing powerno data24.72 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

Form factor & compatibility

Information on 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).

Laptop sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x512 MB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data432.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2006 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 110 Watt

Go 7900 GTX SLI has 22.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 2150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI and GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
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