Cayman and GeForce 7900 GS - video card comparison

Cayman

GeForce 7900 GS

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Cayman

G71

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2006

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

Texture fill rate

9.000

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1320 MHz

Memory bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

3.0

Vulkan

N/A