GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon HD 2900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7800 GTX vs Radeon HD 2900 GT
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 2900 GT
301
GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 2900 GT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G70
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2005
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
430 MHz
601 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
240
Power consumption (TDP)
86 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.32
7.212
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A