GeForce 7900 GT and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GT vs HD Graphics 500
GeForce 7900 GT
266
HD Graphics 500
307
GeForce 7900 GT
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
G71
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2006
September 2016
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
-
700 MHz
Core clock speed
450 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
12
Power consumption (TDP)
48 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.80
9.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
42.24 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
N/A
2.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.97
Quick Sync
-
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