GeForce 7900 GS and Radeon 9600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GS vs Radeon 9600
GeForce 7900 GS
261
Radeon 9600
36
GeForce 7900 GS
Radeon 9600
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
G71
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
450 MHz
324 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.000
1.296
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
378 MHz
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
6.048 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A