GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI vs Radeon HD 8450G

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	1083	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.02	no data
Architecture	Terascale 3 (2010−2013)	G7x (2005−2007)
GPU code name	Richland	G71M
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	12 March 2013 (11 years old)	12 October 2006 (17 years old)
Current price	$338	$535

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	192	64
Core clock speed	533 MHz	16 MHz
Boost clock speed	720 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	1,303 million	556 Million
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	90 Watt
Texture fill rate	8.640	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8450G and GeForce Go 7900 GTX SLI compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 size	medium sized	large
Interface	IGP	no data

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 type	System Shared	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2x512 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

no data

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	GDDR3
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	N/A	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	12 March 2013	12 October 2006
Chip lithography	32 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	90 Watt

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