
GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 9300 GE - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GS vs GeForce 9300 GE
GeForce 7900 GS
261
GeForce 9300 GE
78
GeForce 7900 GS
GeForce 9300 GE
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
8
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
9.000
4.320
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A