GeForce 7900 GS and Ironlake - video card comparison

GeForce 7900 GS

Ironlake

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Generation 5.75

GPU code name

G71

Ironlake

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2006

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Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

450 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

45 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

177 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

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96

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

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Texture fill rate

9.000

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1320 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

10.1

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A