GeForce 7900 GS AGP and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 7900 GS AGP
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G71
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2006
July 2013
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
875 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
160
Power consumption (TDP)
-
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.000
7.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A