GeForce 7900 GS and Radeon HD 2900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GS vs Radeon HD 2900 GT
GeForce 7900 GS
261
Radeon HD 2900 GT
301
GeForce 7900 GS
Radeon HD 2900 GT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G71
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
450 MHz
601 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
240
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.000
7.212
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
42.24 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